Burma Protests

[Aliantha]

UG, you do realize history is not going to treat your views kindly don't you? I mean the views which express your desire to see your country take over the world and have everyone else love you for it.

[tw]

Burma may be the first nation wide uprising that never results in appropriate government changes, since the Czechoslovakia uprising in 1956. Burma can do this to their people since any power that be - that might demand protection of human rights - has been subverted or been turned cautious or adversarial by the United States. Any nation that could have answered UN calls for a solution will not do so for a long list of reasons directly traceable, in part, to America's overt attempts to undermine the UN (ie John Bolton) and to turn every problem into a 'them verses us' agenda.

Under George Jr, we now have enemies or adversaries everywhere where none existed 10 years ago. Situations such as Sudan, Somalia, Burma, Nigeria, and so many other central African problems will only get worse. The only exception - and no thanks to the US - was the French led solution on the Lebanese Israeli border.

There is almost no way to post on this subject without expressing bias. Those who support the current military government (who also agree with UG's political agendas) call it Myramar. Those who want protection for fundamental human rights call that nation Burma.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma.

[tw]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma.

It could have been worse. The teacher could have washed your mouth out with soap.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma.

Golly whillikers, Terry, this sounds like somebody who never moved on to Miss Lace.

It could have been worse. The teacher could have washed your mouth out with soap.

"...And covered it over with sh -- aving cream!"

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

UG, you do realize history is not going to treat your views kindly don't you? I mean the views which express your desire to see your country take over the world and have everyone else love you for it.

I have no desire for my country to take over the world -- I distrust the very idea, however much you might want me to have it to give you a straw man to treat like a Wicker Man. History is littered with the ruins of countries that tried it, and I am not wholly ignorant of history as you know.

What I do demand is that only good government exist. Anywhere. Failed states suffer from too little government, dictatorships from too much, and "that government is best which governs least." Or needs to govern least. Then there's proper room for love.

We've seen what happens with bad governance, and we've seen what happens with good governance. I pick good, and say make the bad extinct, without let, hindrance, or even momentary inefficiency.