Armed humanitarian intervention in Myanmar

Invading Myanmar has taken hold of senseless minds these days. The Burman generals simply refuse to let in foreign aid workers and organisations in order to bring relief to its suffering people orphaned by a terrible cyclone and then washed out of home and hearth and some drowned by a huge tidal wave which swept over the Irradawi delta. One such humanitarian warriors is Robert D. Kaplan who beat the drums for Herr Bush's war in Iraq. For him, and even France's foreign minister Bernard Kouchner, founder of Medicins sans frontieres and overseer of the UNO's consulship in Kosovo, think threat of war will make the Burmese junta shake and tremble and bend a knee to allow western aid to flow unrestricted and directed by foreign NGO's. Think again, old darlings! Kaplan's grasp of Burmese history is superficial at best. Inspired as he is by America's virtuousness, he sees war or the threat thereof a solution to the human drama which the Burmese generals care little about. It boogles the mind what Coxey army. Kaplan & co. will rise up to throw the Burmese rascals out of power. If Herr Bush with all his resources can not subdue a long drawn out bazaar war in Iraq, how does Kaplan expect the US and a coalition of the willing can dislodge the Burmese generals. After all, the Burmese army is a well seasoned force of 60 fighting its own ethnic minorities, and fiercely nationalistic, to boot. Once again the fuzzy thinking of Kaplan comes into play, and once again he is wrong.