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Originally Posted by abaya
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, and working HARD on their own effort to be freed, and we just say, "Oh, please use restraint."
I think I'm really reacting to this 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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And that's the key. There are no interests in Myanmar/Burma. Sending US troops, even if they're tied in with a UN peacekeeping force (which the federal govenment will never agree to in the first place unless they're running the show) will sooner or later conjure up images of East Timor, Haiti, and most importantly, Somalia. Plus, with American troops so close to China, the Chinese government is bound to see this as a threat, and who knows what kind of diplomatic problems that'll set off.
The way I see it, anything worse than sanctions will affect the citizens worse than it'll affect the Junta, and the use of force will be an outright disaster.