Re: Myanmar (formerly Burma)

"Greg Goss" <gossg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> "ZBicyclist" <ZBicyclist@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>There's little to say or do. It's unclear that donating to anybody
>>or writing to anybody will have any effect.
>
> There was an interview between a Canadian radio journalist and someone
> in the US military on what international law would say about "bombing"
> pallets of food into a country with an unwilling government.  The US
> military guy had obviously considered the idea and it sounds like he
> had very reluctantly decided not to do it.  (or at least that someone
> had decided not to do it.  It wasn't clear whether he was in the
> decision making chain.)

This would require Presidential approval.

Glenn D.