Despite 10s of thousands of people dead and dieing in Myanmar, their government is still not letting the US help:
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s isolationist regime allowed the first plane of a major international airlift to land today with aid for cyclone survivors, a U.N. official said, amid fears that lack of safe food and drinking water could push the death toll above 100,000.
But the junta was not allowing U.S. military planes to fly in critical relief goods and continued to stall on visas for U.N. teams urgently seeking entry to ensure aid is delivered to the victims.
You know what? They don’t want our help? Fine. Then let’s not give it to them. There are plenty of deserving people in our own country who could use the assistance.
Anti-US idiots are always blathering that the “United States is not the world’s police” (even though we really are). Ok, fine — then we’re not the world’s Emergency Room, Disaster Relief Agency, and Food Bank either.
How about letting the rest of the world take the reigns on this disaster, and we’ll sit this one out and take a breather?
We could use the money we were going to send to Myanmar to start our effort to pull the US out of the UN.
The London-based human rights group Amnesty International said some donors were delaying aid for fear it would be siphoned off to the army.
Just one more reason not to help out there anyway — I’ll bet you dimes to nickels that the percentage of money and supplies that actually went to victims rather than the military junta would be less than 50% percent.
I’d be afraid that the money would also be siphoned off by the UN fatcats. After the tsunami, Americans and Aussies were on the ground distributing food, water, building hospitals and shelters when the UN honchos were still searching for 5 star hotels to bunk in.
Left by Anonymous on May 8th, 2008 at 9:16 am