as i have said before, this is a completely paranoid totalitarian government bent exclusively on its own survival and its complete grip on power. i think that americans may have a hard time comprehending just how evil this regime is and what it is capable of.

they care nothing at all for the people and to expect any humanitarian impulse from them at all is folly. after all, they have been waging an aggressive campaign of extermination and forced relocation of the karen and other minorities in the provinces for decades.

it’s no coincidence that george orwell got a lot of inspiration for 1984 and other works while in burma (NOT myanmar).

pray for international pressure that will reduce the eventual total number lives and livelihoods destroyed by the cyclone and this evil regime’s self-serving response to it.

No we should stay out to sea until the help is requested in a loud and clear message either from the gov or from the people.

unseen on May 21, 2008 at 4:25 PM

That’s ignorant. Do you really think those people are choosing to die slowly with no food or clean water amongst rotting corpses and sewage? Watching their children die from disease? We as Americans help because we want to help, because we can help and we don’t care who they are or what religion they are or what natural resources they have. We are a bunch of wealthy people who are in a position to help and don’t like to stand by and watch others suffer.

The report cited fears of an American invasion aimed at grabbing the country’s oil reserves.

So this is why Ron Paul voted against the resolution.

Excuse me. Dr. Paul.

i wonder what the US government would have said to China, or Russia if they offered to ship in supplies after Kitrina? I would be surprised if the answer would be any different from Burma’s. If/when the people request our help then maybe we can do something but as I see it the gove doesn’t want it, the people are not asking for it. So why would we butt into a problem that isn’t any of our business serves none of our national interests, and would change the world’s opioion of us from compassioniate people wanting to help, to cowboys interfereing. No we should stay out to sea until the help is requested in a loud and clear message either from the gov or from the people.

unseen on May 21, 2008 at 4:25 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina

Russia
Was one of the first countries to offer assistance. Up to four jets were placed on standby at the airport Ramenskoe near Moscow as early as August 30, including heavy Ilyushin Il-76-TDs with special evacuation equipment, medical equipment, a water-cleansing system, a rescue helicopter BK-117 and two special cars; and a passenger IL-62, which brought 10 coordinators and 50 rescuers, as well as 6 tons of drinking water. On September 6, the Bush administration gave its approval.

China never offered any aid.

The people of Burma are not asking because there are NO lines of communication to do so. I saw, recently, that some media units have been in Burma, secretly, and they’ve been talking to the people of Burma who are begging for help. They take whatever aid the reporters are able to give at the time, which is usually a few packs of rice. We help because it’s the RIGHT thing to do. These people are being blocked out by their govt and really have no means to get word out. It’s been weeks now and there are still bodies lining the river banks and streets. It is a terrible situation for the people of Burma.

Take a good look at this Democrats ! This is the kind of government you are leading America toward, a heartless soulless communist government where the people’s only purpose is to sacrifice in order to maintain the comfort and power of those at the top.

Maxx on May 21, 2008 at 10:12 AM

Why would anyone on the left think this sort of government is a bad thing? They’ve been tirelessly working toward it with all their energy for decades. They never see this sort of outcome as the end result, even though it inevitably is. They always see a shining future. When that shining future fails to materialize, it will be someone elses fault. They will be the betrayed. They will prepare to start all over to do the exact same thing. It is the very definition of insanity.

http://www.snappedshot.com/archives/2108-UN-To-Investigate-Racism-In-The-US.html

I guess it’s safe to say who the U.N. is cheering for this November.

It’s their loss.

The report cited fears of an American invasion aimed at grabbing the country’s oil reserves.

If we really wanted to invade you, we wouldn’t have to wait for a disaster.

I remember hearing an interview on the radio, NPR no less, talking about one of this junta’s former Cambodian neighbors, Pol Pot. This was several years ago, when that scumbag was dying. Remember, this is NPR, National Public Radio. The person interviewed said, to start, “I think we can all agree that Pol Pot is going to Hell. Even those who don’t like or agree with the concept of Hell make an exception for him.” The interviewer agreed.

Anyway, not to wish hard times on anyone, but I’d like to think that Pol Pot is preparing to give a WARM welcome to his neighbors. Maybe the plague that surely has to be starting among the suffering people has started, or maybe it’s about to start. When it ravages the helpless and all we are allowed to do is watch, here’s hoping that the junta isn’t immune.

They were spectacularly successful in getting the college crowds here and in Europe to take their messages and repeat them ad naseum. We are seeing the results of their efforts – the failed communist regime reaching out from the grave with a vengence.

We should air drop millions of flyers to the Burmese people informing them of same…

Meanwhile, the fabulously rich oil nations of the world sit back and watch as people starve to death, their people oblivious to it due to media censorship. I recently read a summing up of relief efforts during the tsunami. It was shameful.

And I’ve read essays from liberals who want us to invade Burma due to the humanitarian crisis. So why Burma and not Iraq?

rbj on May 21, 2008 at 10:14 AM

Excellent point, yet the question is where did the Burma Junta get the idea that America is a nation bent on invading countries for their oil, expanding its empire, is “evil” and cannot be trusted?

I’m certain the constant leftard meme of “no war for oil” or “America is empire building” (or whatever the moonbat meme of the day is) has helped foment this belief among some nations that America is “evil” and goes to prove words have consequences. With that said is it any surprise that the Burma Junta is not allowing the US to unload its Navy vessels to provide aid to their people because of paranoia of the evil West having other motives like stealing their oil, etc!

Don’t get me wrong, dictatorships like the Burma Junta are paranoid on their own (as most dictatorships are) but when you look at this situation in this perspective it is not out of the realm of possibility that the constant America hating meme from the left has sowed the seed of distrust among many foreign nations to the point that when a catastrophe occurs they have become so paranoid they refuse our assistance, I personally don’t think that logic is beyond the realm of possibility.

Again words have consequences and IMHO the leftard moonbat constant “America is Evil” meme has helped foment a general distrust of America throughout the world which makes the above comment from rbj ironic in that the left thinks the US should intervene yet their constant America bashing has made the providing of critical humanitarian aid very difficult and the result is further suffering and death.

In other words “the leftard moonbats lied and people died!”

The report cited fears of an American invasion aimed at grabbing the country’s oil reserves.

For those of us here in the US, this sounds absolutely ridiculous.

Ridiculous to some of us, sure, but not all. Here are the tragic results of the Left’s long and loud accusations of US imperialism, “no war for oil,” and all the rest of it.

America’s lying Marxists have helped convince Burma’s murderous Marxists that the real enemy is the US. And now, the innocent people of Burma are paying the ultimate price for it.

The U.N. has the power to deploy troops. Those weasels won’t do it. We need to stay out of it until the U.N. gets involved.

Re: Berlin

Because we were dropping into friendly territory

True, but we flew OVER hostile territory, dropping food to those we just recently conquered. I think it could be done again, unless govt troops are everywhere, then they’ll probably shoot anybody touching the food.

Our treaty allowed air corridors (essentially highways in the sky) that we used in the Berlin Airlift. Had the Russians blocked those (by violating airspace or shooting down allied air transports) it would have been an act of war.

True, but we flew OVER hostile territory, dropping food to those we just recently conquered. I think it could be done again, unless govt troops are everywhere, then they’ll probably shoot anybody touching the food.

Tony737 on May 21, 2008 at 10:21 AM

I think it cold be done. I seem to remember reading that their weather radar was insufficient to warn them of the incoming cyclone. One wonders what their AAA is like. They probably have the latest stuff but, as is so under all dictatorships, don’t properly maintain it and/or can’t get any spare parts. We could probably be in and out before they can get a bead on us. Just sayin’.

The Berlin airlift flights were flown through the designated corridor for air traffic; I think it is a mischaracterization to call it “hostile,” there were no attempts by the Soviets to shut down that corridor.

exhelodrvr on May 21, 2008 at 10:50 AM

The territory was indeed enemy territory. Whether attempts happened are irrelevant. The Soviets simply declined to start another war so soon after WWII.