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Originally Posted by filtherton
If only we weren't so tied up destabilizing the middle east...
If we had competent military and civilian leadership,
if we had a good understanding of how the people of Myanmar would respond to our presence,
if we decided not to hire mercenaries to do the work that our soldiers could do,
I wouldn't mind.
It's too bad they don't have pretend WMDs.
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The situation in Burma is precisely the kind of situation where a Chapter VII authorized UN force is useful. Unfortunately, we and others have made such a mockery of UN participation, by not using force when we should, and using force when it's not needed, that it's difficult to make any convincing argument these days. Case in point: how can one argue for intervention in Burma when we have yet to effectively intervene in Sudan?