Re: Myanmar (formerly Burma)

(slidge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:

>> 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.)
> 
> The US has done it before, most recently in Bosnia.
> 
> Hell, at this point, I say land the Marines with food and water. 
> Who is going to stop us?  The Mynamar military is probably
> dead/dying right now. 
> 
> 

Unfortunately our armed forces are tied up in a rilly im****tant 
operation that is absolutely critical to, um....

:::puts head in hands and sobs:::

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