U.S. flying cyclone aid to "outpost of tyranny" »
Posted By DiffeeOnline 1 year, 6 months ago in NewsThe United States was set to fly relief supplies on Monday to Myanmar, a country it has called an "outpost of tyranny", as aid continues to dribble into the reclusive state nine days after a devastating cyclone.
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hyperbola1 year, 6 months ago
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Politicizing the Tragedy in Burma
From the administration that used the 9/11 tragedy to violently pursue an unrelated vendetta against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, we get Round Two. After a cyclone devastated portions of Burma (which the despotic Burmese government has renamed Myanmar) and killed an estimated 100,000 people, instead of concentrating on providing relief, the Bush administration couldn't resist scoring points on First Lady Laura Bush's pet issue â;; the tyranny of the Burmese military junta. Mrs. Bush, apparently the administration's self-anointed czar and expert on U.S. policy toward Burma, went before the White House press corps and laid into the Burmese government for giving its citizens insufficient warning of the coming storm....
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joeblowe1 year, 6 months ago
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See. Now here's a case where I think a position could reasonably be taken to USE U.S. troops to...um, COUNTERACT the idiocy of the fools currently in charge over there. Send in a carrier group, TELL the buttwipes that we are GOING to deliver humanitarian aid, stay out of the way or get bombed to oblivion. Then, after we've done what needs doing, simply LEAVE. Don't build any huge permanent bases, don't depose the leaders, don't bomb the utilities.
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djrevelky1 year, 6 months ago
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You really are a foreign policy novice aren't you?
So we send in troops, and forcible take over the country for a few weeks to give out supplies? We come into a conflict with their government, blow up a few things, give some collateral damage, and then leave without doing anything?
Oh yes! I'm sure countries, governments, and citizens just love it when you invade their country, blow ****** up, then leave without fixing it.
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djrevelky1 year, 6 months ago
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You'd find out that the local government in Myanmar isn't as incompetent as that of Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin.
You would also find out that the bureaucracy and sheer amount of rules involved makes handling disasters overseas much easier than handling our own. We don't have to go through chain of command over there.
Neg away all you want, but I have talked to Gov. Harris' Chief of Staff during Katrina, you haven't. I have talked to performance auditors in LA, you haven't.
Katrina made us realize just how sluggist our response system is due to too much regulations and paperwork.
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canadianrancher571 year, 6 months ago
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jumpmaster- alot of countries do think that the U.S. should always come to aid when things like this happen and maybe it's a good thing but sometimes it makes a person wonder. In this particular case the U.S. should say that they will give aid but dictate the conditions under which it will do so then give them a set time to accept, If the answer is no then they made the decision. The people who are running this country are not ordinary people and no one should bend over backwards to help.
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hyperbola1 year, 6 months ago
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The amount of aid the US has said it will provide is SMALL compared to other countries and organizations. As such, it is no wonder that the Burmese government is unwilling to gulp down the political strings attached to it. What has struck me in much of the TV coverage is that the "dire political rhetoric" seems completely overboard compared to the pictures that accompany it.
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Cybnetic1 year, 6 months ago
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why do we as a people tolerate this kind of warmongering by incompetents!!! these people need to all be shot for not helping there own people!! OH!
I forgot there are still hurricanes victims in our country that need help.... where was the help in our country?
they can listen to your phone calls and create a database on you but oh.. your on your own if something bad happens.
maybe we need to look towards the dictatorship military control coming to our own country. you fat lazy people need to get off you asses
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Endoscopy1 year, 6 months ago
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What an idiot way of talking. Still hurricane victems in our country. Everybody looks at Katrina and New Orleans. That was flooding not hurricane damage. Katrina cut a swath up through several states that have not fully recovered. Previously Florida was hit by three hurricanes and there are still areas not recovered. It takes a long time to recover from disasters.
Then you talk about what the government was trying to intercept was international calls from to or from terrorists and turn that into listening in to local phone calls. Ignoring that police do that regularly fighting crime. All it takes sis a piece of paper from a judge.
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