Burma Protests

[SamIam]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

So, "Why don't the Americans come and save us?", a call to action for me, is a call to inaction for you. Jee-zus, Bruce, I call that a lot of damned bigotry. People can't have democracy in spite of local fascistoids because they're foreigners??? They can't have any help because they're foreigners??? That seems the core of your argument.

The fascists must be removed for democracy to happen, and it simply doesn't matter who does the shooting as long as the fascists do not survive the experience. An American bullet will answer as well as a Burmese one, and you know this.

Er, where does it say that the US must enter into every other country's internal conflicts? Do you know how many foreign wars we'd be facing, UG? Every US citizen under the age of 60 would have to be mobilized to serve in our new global war for "freedom." And Bruce is right, my bet's on China. We'll be "freedom" fighting there before you can say "Walmart" at the rate things are going.

I say we nominate some other country to be the Fighter of Fascism. Malta, perhaps?