By: Yebaw Day

Yebaw Day — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:04:59 +0000

Dear Nai Khin Kyaw,
I applaud your writings. We need more writers like you to counter the nonsense written by pseudopretensionists like Marjolis et al who claim that Western Powers should not interfere or else Burma will disintegrate worse than the Balkans, worse than Vietnam, and worse than Iraq/Afghanistan combined.
Please continue writing about how factors exist that will ensure we will not become like those nations, how the existence of the Sangha, the Students, Suu (DASSK), and Spirit of the People are
going to stay more or less together in forming a new Nation. True, we will never be a perfect Union — but look at the SPDC. For all their brute strength, they have never been able to hold the Nation together. It is all a big pretense. But given the 4 S’s above, we CAN hold it together, and we have to continue lobbying the Powers that be to give us a break, a little break, in landing the International troops inside Burma, and to reassure them that we will be responsible in training our people to take over the job of maintaining the peace. Oh, and I forgot the 5th S — Superstition of Than shwe that when the White Men in Uniform land in Burma, he stupidly believes that his power will crumble. That is going to save the People a lot of trouble.
So let us lobby the West to land some forces inside Burma to grab a chay-goak, a foot-hold, in a firm, secure firebase that is well-protected for themselves so that they will be safe from attack from SPDC. We need to reassure them that they need not be patrolling the streets of Rangoon and expose themselves to attack like the way the Coalition Forces are suffering in Baghdad. Once this firebase is firmly established, the Superstition of Than Shwe will work, the People will rise up, and decent-minded patriots among the soldiery will defect.
Keep up your wonderful work !

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