http://burmadigest.info/2007/10/25/the-time-has-come-for-the-un-to-do-something-different-for-burma/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:12:04 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://burmadigest.info/2007/10/25/the-time-has-come-for-the-un-to-do-something-different-for-burma/comment-page-1/#comment-1798 Tettoe Aung Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:36:32 +0000 http://burmadigest.info/2007/10/25/the-time-has-come-for-the-un-to-do-something-different-for-burma/#comment-1798 Feraya, you're dead right. The military ethos always have been 'commanding' and 'ordering' (even when it comes to the day-to-day price of commodities). They said that they have changed the system from socialist system to 'market economy' then they issued orders that prices must not go up! They are there that long because they have 'soldiers with guns and know nothing but to shoot when ordered'. In 1988, school children with their white and green schools uniforms were shot because the soldiers were told that they are 'communists'. If it's not for the world's surviving (but bogus) Communist China, they won't last at all. The UN is not a perfect system but when 'self interest' is the driving force what can you do? For the US to intervene you have to ask yourself first what's in there for them. They went into Iraq, true or not, for oil and now they're in trouble. Unlike Iraq, the US need not intervene at all. Less than the cost of one 'smart bomb' they can get rid of the regime. Why would there be a power vacuum when the elected party was denied of their rightful place? Will people object to Daw Suu and her party taking over, I don't think so? All the farce, the National Convention, the road map and so on. Now that the 'targeted sanctions' are in place Ali Than Shwe and his 400,000 thieves should reconsider what is their point in hanging on to power when robbing the country of its resources is not going to pay. Feraya, you’re dead right. The military ethos always have been ‘commanding’ and ‘ordering’ (even when it comes to the day-to-day price of commodities). They said that they have changed the system from socialist system to ‘market economy’ then they issued orders that prices must not go up!
They are there that long because they have ’soldiers with guns and know nothing but to shoot when ordered’. In 1988, school children with their white and green schools uniforms were shot because the soldiers were told that they are ‘communists’. If it’s not for the world’s surviving (but bogus) Communist China, they won’t last at all.
The UN is not a perfect system but when ’self interest’ is the driving force what can you do? For the US to intervene you have to ask yourself first what’s in there for them. They went into Iraq, true or not, for oil and now they’re in trouble. Unlike Iraq, the US need not intervene at all. Less than the cost of one ’smart bomb’ they can get rid of the regime.
Why would there be a power vacuum when the elected party was denied of their rightful place? Will people object to Daw Suu and her party taking over, I don’t think so?
All the farce, the National Convention, the road map and so on. Now that the ‘targeted sanctions’ are in place Ali Than Shwe and his 400,000 thieves should reconsider what is their point in hanging on to power when robbing the country of its resources is not going to pay.

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