A war against murderous jihadists that actually is in our national interests – that war we can’t fight. But we have time to invade Burma now? We must oppose communism and dictatorships, but we don’t have to invade countries to do it.

However, the reason we don’t invade countries is not because Europe and the UN look down on us; screw ‘em. We don’t do it because it’s unwise.

By the way, if one supports the freedom agenda and the idea that everyone has a right to democracy, then what’s wrong with intervening in Myanmar? The risks are minimal, since the regime has no military power at all (except against its own people, at ground level). You can’t support a full invasion of Iraq whose purpose is to install a democracy (as opposed to just bombing Saddam from the sky) and then say there is no “national interest” in Myanmar.

Myanmar
Sudan
Somalia
Lebanon
Syria
North Korea
Venezuela
Bolivia
Indonesia
China

Communist dictatorships are not healthy governing bodies.

China likes being surrounded by client states just like Russia does. In their calculus, a neighbor that thinks like you do (but not as well), knows not to make trouble for you, and is willing to run to your side if threatened is an asset, and one that you don’t risk just to make your adversaries happy.

“This is the worst government in the world. Same as Saddam Hussein. Why you cannot help us?”

Because, pal, the entire world has been taking one gigantic, steaming s*** on us for the last five years for removing Saddam from Iraq. Every eurotrash scumbag alive (about 300 milion of them) has been screeching against it as well as using it to aid and abbett political opportunists around the world since before that war even started. Just as they damned us for sorting out Yugoslavia and trying to help in Somalia. And now the pissants who’ve done nothing but harangue us and undercut us for years want Americans to die to satisfy their ideas about philanthropy while they sacrifice nothing (as usual)?

China’s right next door and could address the situation in a hurry if they made even a slight effort. Gee, maybe we should invade China and straighten that place out too to satisy the amateur diplomats.

Django on May 13, 2008 at 2:33 AM

The hippies, media and Democrats spit on our soldiers. Repeatedly tell everyone that they are “too stupid” to do anything else. Call them “baby killers” and worse.

The hippies, media and the Democrats scream to high heaven that we must not do things in a “unilateral” way no matter what the reason.

The hippies, media and Democrats consider AmeriKKKa to be the most evil place on earth. They hate this country with a passion.

So, hippies, time to walk the walk. Get off your asses and do what you deamnd of others and go help these people? They have plenty of hippie billionaires who can donate millions to the Obamamessiah I am sure that they can spare a few million to aid Burma. They have fleets of private jets that they can fly aid over with. And, most importantly, the Burmese may be more receptive about getting aid for communists like Medea Benjamin, Mikey Moore and the rest of their ilk. I would much rather have Medea or Mikey hacked to death and given the Mogadishu treatment then our servicemen and women. I would rather see Ben Cohen get shot down over the jungle dropping Ben & Jerry’s then a US military aircrew.

Nahanni on May 13, 2008 at 4:16 AM

If they want help, let them ask for it and let them ask China.

And after years of silence from the Bush people, does anyone expect Maverick’s administration to jolt people back into using facts and logic? Wouldn’t that violate the “high road” principle by upsetting some people?

IceCold on May 13, 2008 at 3:25 AM

Good point. Anybody else here read Atlas Shrugged and think maybe we’re approaching a tipping point too?

Al-Ozarka would give them in-state tuition, you heartless bastards.

Cuffy Meigs on May 13, 2008 at 7:54 AM

I bet it looked simply hilarious when the coffee shot right out of my nose. Pity you couldn’t see it.

No, they won’t.

SouthernGent on May 12, 2008 at 11:04 PM

Would you fly that plane? Would you want your son/daughter to fly that plane?

If so, then if the Dictator in Burma says they don’t need help, they don’t need any help.

Now, once we have an agreement from out allies, and not just a few, but all of them, because we didn’t have agreement from France, and that meant that our allies were not with us in Iraq, and we were acting unilaterally with something like twelve nations coming with us.

Also, do we have any authority from the UN? I’m not sure we can take action without a clear UN Resolution, not only from the Security Council, but also the General Assembly.

Since Burma is in Asia, we’d have to get a meeting going with the major powers in Asia, and have them approve any and all activity wouldn’t we?

Oh I imagine we can get this all done in a year, or perhaps two, providing that we all work together. We’ll need time to review the intelligence won’t we? How do we know that the Press isn’t lying to us about what is really going on? Does Halliburton have any interest in Burma? If so, does that void any and all intelligence?

So many questions, and so little time Libs. Too bad that humans dying isn’t a good enough reason any more. If we go in and depose a dictator who is in essence wiping out his own population, aren’t we in fact creating a land that is ripe for terrorists?

“This is the worst government in the world. Same as Saddam Hussein. Why you cannot help us?”

Because we did help in Iraq with Saddam Hussein, and everyone on earth since then has screwed us.

Let the U.N., Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy, John Murtha, and so on take care of it.

The hippies, media and the Democrats scream to high heaven that we must not do things in a “unilateral” way no matter what the reason.

The hippies, media and Democrats consider AmeriKKKa to be the most evil place on earth. They hate this country with a passion.

So, hippies, time to walk the walk. Get off your asses and do what you deamnd of others and go help these people? They have plenty of hippie billionaires who can donate millions to the Obamamessiah I am sure that they can spare a few million to aid Burma. They have fleets of private jets that they can fly aid over with. And, most importantly, the Burmese may be more receptive about getting aid for communists like Medea Benjamin, Mikey Moore and the rest of their ilk. I would much rather have Medea or Mikey hacked to death and given the Mogadishu treatment then our servicemen and women. I would rather see Ben Cohen get shot down over the jungle dropping Ben & Jerry’s then a US military aircrew.

She is in this piece, though – and AP, sad to say, yet another D-minus for you on sophistication and substance. This column is absurd. If you’re going to use it as a hook for the intervention question, how about doing at least a cursory evisceration of her idiocy? Geez.

She compares the “hit” to the Bush administration from Katrina to the possibility that the cyclone’s aftermath will weaken the junta. Nice! A storm whose major impact was on coastal Mississippi, and which in general was handled just fine by the federal government – and disastrously by the LA state and local authorities – is comparable to a natural disaster in a Third World dictatorship where a junta cold-bloodedly blocks assistance out of political paranoia? Gee, Anne, ya think that the “hit” from Katrina might have been from the Soviet or Nazi-levels of distortion and hysteria in the “media” that accompanied Katrina? Guess you didn’t notice when Brown humiliated that pathetic Cong. Shays from CT at his little hearing, wherein he attempted to make one itsy-bitsy bit of additional political hay out of the communists burning the Reichstag.

Behold, folks, someone so stupid and misinformed as to talk of the “damage” done by the Iraq war to coalitions of the willing gets columns published. As if the morally imbecilic and contemptible, cowardly behavior of France, Germany, and many others WRT Iraq somehow is the reason they’re all so powerless and pusillanimous about helping in Burma. News flash: “Europe” can’t project power, to include humanitarian intervention, on any significant scale much beyond the borders of Europe.

Oh, and BTW, “air drops” in this situation are ludicrous. Enteric disease is the big killer, and that is unlikely to be affected at all by the provision of a few more food or medical items.

Some days, one cannot resist the conclusion that ignorance and moral inversion ARE winning the battle. And after years of silence from the Bush people, does anyone expect Maverick’s administration to jolt people back into using facts and logic? Wouldn’t that violate the “high road” principle by upsetting some people?

“Where is the frickin UN?”
I know. There are refugees to rape, so you’d think they’d be lining up already.

Laura on May 13, 2008 at 1:24 AM

Indeed…Their usual food-for-sex operations should work like a charm in Burma.