More Politics - Myanmar

[Lemonaide]

[Neinteen]

lol!? didn't their government like gas them?

[sionnach]

Of course! It's that simple!

Any brainwaves for israel and palestine?

[Fencing Fool]

Why exactly am I supposed to care? I don't know anyone there, I never will, and what they do to each other doesn't affect me or anyone else I know. Why should I expend my necessarily limited attention, concern and resources on what those people are doing to each other?

[Have At You]

Why exactly am I supposed to care? I don't know anyone there, I never will, and what they do to each other doesn't affect me or anyone else I know. Why should I expend my necessarily limited attention, concern and resources on what those people are doing to each other?

Because it's rapidly destabilizing and becoming a potential threat to the general security and economics of southeast asia, which, like it or not, affects you no matter where you live.

The country was once very wealthy, but decades of idiotic government running a centralized economy have made it one of the most impoverished countries around. It's almost a failed state, but for the fact that France and Russia have economic interests in keeping it going. Russia is helping it build a nuclear reactor. (Why is it that France and Russia always have an economic stake in rogue nations?)

On top of that, human rights are violated on a mass scale, plus the government's obstruction of foreign humanitarian aid, have resulted in the withdrawal of most of asia and the west from support of the ruling government.

The place is ripe for a revolution or an implosion, and with pressure from France Russia and China to keep the government going, it could become protracted and nasty, with seriously bad effects on its SEATO neighbors, who don't really have the wherewithal to do anything about it.

Wherever you are, and I presume you're in the west, it's in your interests to prevent political instability, protect human rights and allow economic development in that part of the world. The last thing you need is another rogue dictatorship with a nuclear reactor in a sensitive region, getting India and China all antsy and possibly requiring western troops to pacify the place, restore its infrastructure and keep the peace.

[Lemonaide]

lol!? didn't their government like gas them?

No, they're waiting to find you.

[Have At You]

I don't know why I bother.

[Lemonaide]

Because it's rapidly destabilizing and becoming a potential threat to the general security and economics of southeast asia, which, like it or not, affects you no matter where you live.

The country was once very wealthy, but decades of idiotic government running a centralized economy have made it one of the most impoverished countries around. It's almost a failed state, but for the fact that France and Russia have economic interests in keeping it going. Russia is helping it build a nuclear reactor. (Why is it that France and Russia always have an economic stake in rogue nations?)

On top of that, human rights are violated on a mass scale, plus the government's obstruction of foreign humanitarian aid, have resulted in the withdrawal of most of asia and the west from support of the ruling government.

The place is ripe for a revolution or an implosion, and with pressure from France Russia and China to keep the government going, it could become protracted and nasty, with seriously bad effects on its SEATO neighbors, who don't really have the wherewithal to do anything about it.

Wherever you are, and I presume you're in the west, it's in your interests to prevent political instability, protect human rights and allow economic development in that part of the world. The last thing you need is another rogue dictatorship with a nuclear reactor in a sensitive region, getting India and China all antsy and possibly requiring western troops to pacify the place, restore its infrastructure and keep the peace.

In the west, or east, north or south, the direction of a person in relation to an endangered nation has no 'bearing' [pardon my pun]. The point being, that a large population seem to be in danger. I am thinking of a time in western history, where we opened our doors to thousands of refugees from Vietnam - I was hoping for the same thing. Why bother to go into a foreign nation to bring about 'justice' or 'stability' when you can invite the already socially exiled into our home? Then we can sit back and see which new group will fall prey to the 'king'. And, btw, I am so appalled at the 'sentencing' handed down recently in the news, it deserves so much more. What a slap in the face to justice. It tells us that across the board, we all have to think about sentencing structures that make sense and close the gaps for those nations' own protection. And that means everywhere. Which, unfortunetly brings us right around the circle to the problem of the US, and the UN looking at other nations punishment structures and calling it 'Human Rights' problems. As we look back maybe thirty or forty years, we see that many times nations have imprisioned or even fried their terrorists according to their own laws, only to be thwarted by the liberal rights interpretations of Human Rights. In order to play this to the max, we then get reeled in by genuine Human Rights violators in Right Wing nations, whose intelligence makes use of the aforetomentioned. What they make the best use of, is the real hedonic behaviors that have infiltrated every sector both public and private.
Read that and work it out.

[Miglin]

I side with neither faction inthe Myanmar conflict. I don't support fascist governments, nor do I support monks.