05-11-2008, 09:34 PM
I'm generally one for America leaving as small a footprint as possible, but were there ever a place for us to flex our muscle, it's Burma/Myanmar.
The military dictatorship there took place after a coup and suppressed/killed countless innocents over the last 35 years. They're in cahoots with the major opium producers of the country and often pay workers in opium so they'll keep coming back to work. Read anything about Burma and you'll see just how fucked up of place it really is.
I don't necessarily think it's our job to remove the government, but I think we have some responsibility to make sure our aid actually gets to the people it's intended for.
The military dictatorship there took place after a coup and suppressed/killed countless innocents over the last 35 years. They're in cahoots with the major opium producers of the country and often pay workers in opium so they'll keep coming back to work. Read anything about Burma and you'll see just how fucked up of place it really is.
I don't necessarily think it's our job to remove the government, but I think we have some responsibility to make sure our aid actually gets to the people it's intended for.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth