Thursday 25 October 2007

"The whole world must act"

Drivel like this effort by The Goblin King is hardly going to have the Junta in Burma quaking in their boots, is it?

The One-Eyed Wonder solemnly quotes Aung San Suu Kyi at the end "It's no use standing there wringing your hands and saying my goodness, my goodness, this is terrible. You must try to do what you can."

I then went back and read the whole article again. The Chief Brownie helpfully comes up with whole lists of things that might happen on an 'it-would-be-nice-if' basis, but nowhere does he actually say what he, as leader of a fairly big country, is going to DO which will speed up the demise of the Junta.

Wanker.

2 comments:

Scott Freeman said...

"Even under the most crushing state machinery, courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilised man"

Which is why The Party here in Britain will one day fall.

If I were prime minister, and the British people gave me a few million quid to help the people of Burma, I'd air drop them a few thousand Kalashnikovs.

Mark Wadsworth said...

They also need mobile 'phones, laptops, printing presses, paper, ink, fake IDs and stuff*. And to go with the Kalashnikovs, they need bullets, bandages, medication. And some sort of deal with surrounding countries to shelter refugees.

*Like the CIA did in Poland in the 1970s and 1980s, the only war that the CIA ever helped to win.