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Originally Posted by QuasiMondo
My question then is what would you have the western world do? What does the west have to force the Junta's hand? I've thought about this for a bit, and maybe it's because I'm too unimaginative, but I don't see many options out there. Political isolation? They've done a fine job cutting themselves off. Military invasion? Too extreme. Peacekeeping force? Has that ever worked?
To be honest, if the west can't even be bothered with Darfur, what makes you think they'll care about Burma?
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Sorry, you posted while I was typing, but man... I dunno. I guess it's just so hypocritical, you know, that we can have all the motivation in the world to storm into Iraq and spend trillions of dollars on a war there over several years, all to "free the people" and give them democracy, when there's TONS of people needing to be freed in other countries, and working HARD on their own effort to be freed, and we just say, "Oh, please use restraint..." because they don't have anything we want.
I think I'm really reacting to that line more than anything, probably because every world leader who has been on TV news (addressing the UN, mostly) has used this line... and what the hell does it mean? USE RESTRAINT? They're a military junta! Christ. We are the ones who have to restrain them, with force, if you ask me. Or something more than words and sanctions... I don't know.
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Originally Posted by Charlatan
In the end, I am afraid that no one will do anything, just like they did nothing when 3000 were killed for protesting in the late 90s.
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Late 80s, but yeah... the difference is that back then, people might have gotten away with saying, "Oh, I didn't know about this," since there were only phone lines and maybe some news pieces leaking out of the situation. But with the internet, I've just been floored by how much coverage I'm seeing about this... and yet, so little reaction. I'm not just talking about the US, but certainly the hypocrisy bullshit stinks highest from there... but yes, where is the UN? Western Europe? Maybe ASEAN, but can they really do anything? Do they have any force?