“Thursday was the most violent day in more than a month of protests — which at their height have brought an estimated 70,000 demonstrators to the streets. Bloody sandals lay scattered on some streets as protesters fled shouting “Give us freedom, give us freedom!”
C’mon, all you beautiful purple-fingered freedom lovers! It will be difficult to find more blatant oppression than this. It doesn’t get much clearer, fellas. Put that lucrative career on hold for a little while, enlist, train, and start spreading a little of that freedom. Man up. We got guys hunkered down in Iraq and Afghanistan at the moment, or I’m sure they would be happy to take care of this little hotspot for ya. How bout picking up the slack for these guys a little? Oh, you’re busy? Never mind.
*crickets*
Y’know, I’d be finishing up 20 years in the Army right now, if they hadn’t sent me home after the medical exam. Damn DES.
Therefore, I have chickenhawk immunity.
But, whatever.
Why is a man of your age using the debate tactics of a 14-year-old, anyway? Are we going to break into na-na-na-boo-boo, next?
Couple of things: first, I don’t think US military intervention in Myanmar would be very helpful in establishing democratic rule there. This seems to be one of those situations in which diplomatic pressure from neighbors (India, China), who can be pressed/encouraged by the US to pressure the SLORC regime, would have more effect. That and economic pressure, mostly from ditto but also perhaps by US regulation banning outsourcing to Myanmar.
Second, if this were a situation in which armed US intervention would be helpful, Mack’s post would be exactly on target. Slarti, I don’t see what’s immature in pointing out the consequences of having those whose families decline to serve in the military consistently and repeatedly pushing for more military activity.
I’m just wishing our government would concentrate on addressing the civil unrest and major problems within our own country rather than policing the rest of the world on the level that we do.
I know it’s much more complicated than a simpleton sentence like that, but damn…
I don’t know that I want the government addressing the “civil unrest” here, and maybe that’s not what you meant to say … but dang, I sure wish they’d invest in infrastructure at home instead of trying to spread Democracy all around the world.
And as for pictures, apparently all you need to do is take a still from a movie and pass it off as the real thing.
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There’s no oil in Myanmar.
Slarti, it seems perfectly reasonable to ask the entire country to pitch in in a Global War On Terror To Protect Our Way Of Life. Maybe the well-to-do could offer up those handy tax cuts for starters. Lets spread the sacrifice around a little, huh?
Drew Carey said when he was in Iraq to visit the troops, he saw a sign on a soldier’s bunk that read, “America isn’t at war, we are at war, Americas at the mall.”
Doesn’t that just break your heart?
Mack, apparently the Powers That Decide These Things have decided that the oppressed freedom lovers of Iran are next on the list for liberation. Sorry, Myanmar will have to wait. Maybe if there were some kind of Obvious Independence Lovers besides those funny guys running around in orange bedsheets, the moneybags at Freedom’s Watch would be more interested.
Must be nice but as you have ably documented, you know how to MoveOn:
Not as bad as Bush but they’re trying. Just for you.
Al Jazeera was talking about Myanmar before any of the major US Media.
Eli, why do you hate America?