It’s stunning really when you flick through the TV channels tonight. Obama and Clinton are talking about an election, while people in Somalia are rising up, because they can’t afford to buy rice anymore. In Myanmar (check map below) thousands of people have been killed.
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I haven’t seen many primaries in my life time since I lived in Germany until I was 27, but I know that with the amount of disasters going on in the world, from our involvement in Iraq, to what’s going in Korea, over to the situation in Pakistan, what might happen with Iran its an incredible waste of time and effort.
The numbers are still changing but in Myanmar they’re expecting over 15,000 deaths already. I know it’s so naive to say this, but wouldn’t it be great if we could deploy truly humanitarian troops? Imagine the effect on our image in the World if we sent in 30,000 troops to help that country recover from their disaster. I know it’s not realistic since the people in power are a military Junta so Humanitarian action is probably not exactly the first priority for them, but I’m sure you catch my drift on this.
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The junta has rejected our efforts on sending out disaster teams. They have already accepted $250,000 in aid from the US Embassy there, and do not want anything to do with us despite the conditions they are in.
Nothing like a double whammy for those people I tell ya.
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