Myanmar and the United Nations disaster
A big storm blew into Myanmar last week. An even bigger storm is brewing. So far, 62,000 people are either dead or missing. Nearly 1,000,000 are homeless. The United Nations, along with the United States, rushed to provide food for the homeless. The Myanmar ruling junta confiscated it.
Now, this is where I get pissy. The United Nations complained about it.
That’s it.
As usual, that’s it.
A military junta with no military equipment shut down the United Nations.
Ohhhh-kayyyyy
Now, folks, we’ve got a massive disaster already occurring, and bound to get much much worse unless conditions are stabilized. This won’t just affect Myanmar, it will affect the entire region. That would be millions of people starving and draining resources that apparently are getting more scarce every day. All because the Myanmar rulers are scared to death of dealing with the outside world.
Now, what the UN SHOULD have been doing is telling those rulers we’re coming in whether they like it or not. Whether they like it or not, the disease and famine that’s assured to occur on a massive scale is a threat to the rest of the world whether those idiots like it or not and the rest of the world has the right to protect itself from the stupidity of the Myanmar leaders. And if the Myanmar leaders get in the way one more time, the United Nations has at its disposal quite a few fighter aircraft that have these smart missiles with their individual names on them. Just ask Khadafi how well they work and Hussein how well they work.
But, that’s not the United Nations’ way of doing things. They’re gonna whine and do nothing while millions of people starve to death yet again.
At least I’m not alone in feeling the United Nations is a complete waste of time and resources.
The situation in Myanmar/Burma clearly shows how ineffectual and impotent the United Nations actually is. I never thought I would EVER say this, but I applaud France for pushing to enact the UN’s “right to protect.” It’s a shame for the Burmese people that their country has little to offer anyone (Oil) to make them worth any effort on the part of any developed nation’s to remove a disgusting and oppressive regime. If this tragedy isn’t the excuse needed for the world community to act on installing a true, decent and effective government for the oppressed people of Burma/Myanmar or whatever the PEOPLE would like to call it when they actually have a say, what will it take? As a proud American who has spent my life serving my country, I may, at times, complain about our own problems with governmental leadership, but the “leaders” of the government in place in Myanmar are truly VILE and should be dealt with accordingly by the rest of the civilized world. It should be done with no expectations of profit from resources or corporate gain. It’s just the decent thing to do.