Do we really care?
The Myanmar govt/military has made it quite clear they do not want to help/do not want to help, so should we feel sorry for them as a whole? Should we really be giving a military dictatorship $$$?
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who made the bed?Originally Posted by marty
who is lying in it?
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Lumpy
Too bad they have no oil......
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Mmmm! Noted the opulence of the Governmental buildings and the rulers don't seem to be too badly off...
Now, you're just being cynical...
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The people whose bodies are rotting in the streets of Yangon right now didn't make the bed they're lying in.
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The Myanmari administration hasn't said they don't want help. They've just demonstrated their inability to cope with complex ambiguity. The UN should just "invade" the place with aid and assistance and tell the Myanmaris that if they're not interested in helping their citizens, they should just fuck off and not impede the progress of those who want to help.
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Whip it, whip it good!
I agree with you, but....
I struggle with the suffering of the people directly affected on the ground by this cyclone. Personally no money of mine will go there until I can be sure it will get to the ground root problems.
I hurt my back a few weeks ago and have been ringing in vain to get an appointment with the doctor recommended physio. Seems she and her husband are currently in Myanmar. They go there each year for 3 months. They have thankfully survived, but guess they will be a bit longer in coming home.
If I was a really good person, I would go there in an instant to help where I could. Alas I am only a good enough one, so am staying at home, and avoiding the news reports.
Lumpy
That would require the UN to make an actual decision
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The UN places too much sway on that whole geopolitical clap trap. Particularly when there are atrocities being committed (e.g. Bosnia and Rwanda) or other forms of human suffering (e.g. Indonesia and Myanmar) being endured by the poor and downtrodden.
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Lumpy
I'm sure they will put together a task force and come up with a disaster relief plan to implement in the final quarter of 2008
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The people who are directly affected seem to be crying out for assistance. My heart goes out to them. I don't give a shit what the government is. Just get the people who need it the assistance a suffering human deserves. This is my 0.02..
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ArseBiscuit
I saw Rambo 4 the other week, i thought he was wreaking havoc over there again.
just because a government is corrupt and shit doesn't mean the people on the street deserve to suffer...../serious
Hardcore Biker
Dont think they have no fuck all of anything now....
See on the news to-night where they used to produce a lot of rice for export.
But most of it is stuffed..and looks like they are going to have to import it..
Where the money is coming from...who noes??
Do feel sorry for the poor village people.looks like over a million have been affected.....
Not there fault,,wot nature has served them..
Pisses me off the way the goverment is handling this....
there seems to be lots of support from UN and neighboring countries..
But having trouble getting it in..
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There is nothing like an inept, corrupt, inbred and pathetic military dictatorship. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see robert mugabe show up at some stage... The immaculate pressed uniforms, the jungle-jangle of bright shiny medals everywhere, but not even a glimmer of compassion to the countrymen and women who are dead and dying around them.
How long until the diseases start appearing?
Aparently the head bitch complained that the palace didn't have any power (electrical, of course).
A small flock of cruise missiles, targeted on the palace, wouldn't be inhumane would it?
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i actually agree with this - i was just being a troll.
no amount of $$$ aid is going to help though - it has to come in the form of physical aid - i saw on tv that the govt was charging 500 kyat (NZ$100) to clear trees off a house - the average annual income in myanmar (or Burma as it used to be known) is NZ$300.
i really feel for the people on the street - it must be absolute hell there. the military govt though is typical of all dictatorial military govts - full of their own importance and self-satisfaction.
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