I have to briefly mention the situation in Burma because: a) Buddhist monks are cool and b) Burma is a country I really want to visit but never will as long as that military junta is in power.
It is a well-known fact that I am a complete physical coward so I have great admiration for the monks and their thousands of supporters who are marching in the streets when they know darn well they’re going to get shot at. Would I do that? Of course not. I have a coward’s reputation to uphold.
Yesterday at the UN, Bush said “Americans are outraged by the situation in Burma”. Which I thought was downright hilarious. Not to say that those Americans who can find Burma on a map* aren’t outraged, but I don’t think you can look at those half dozen people and say they stand for all of America. Most Americans aren’t even that outraged by their own government and they’ve been enduring it for 6 years now.
*Nitpicking point: I realize you can't actually find Burma on a map, since it's not called Burma anymore.
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Thank god for that last comment. I was just going to look it up on a map...so I could say 'ya typical americans kind find Burma on a map - ha ha'.
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and yet
if bushy can raise his fuzzy voice in this it will tell china to tell burma to calm down or else- which hopefully burma will do since china is paying the piper and china wants to save face and make nice nice w/the world for the oylmpics
on the other hand aung san suu kyi was taken out of house arrest and stuck in a real prison last night
It Myanmar - see if you can find that on a map! (or look at an old map).
Re Bush - you know, if you followed the Iraqi example (not the first one about WMD's) but about regime changeand getting rid of a terrible dictator, a whole lot of countries would have been invaded by now - Myanmar, Zimbabwe, most of Africa in fact, some of Eastern Europe....but then,how many of those countries have lots and lots of oil!
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