Re: U.N. 'furious' as Myanmar aid 'seized'

On Fri, 9 May 2008 14:47:02 -0700 (PDT), bmoore@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

>What if only one grain of rice reaches the people? You're saying that
>no matter how shameless and horrible the junta is, we should bend over
>backwards to comply with their edicts, even if it means more people
>will die. Sovereignty is im****tant but in so is saving lives, arguably
>moreso in this case. It's too bad the junta is in charge. They don't
>deserve to be.


This is a human disaster not a morality play.  There is no place for
good and evil battles.  Do what is possible first and that is to get
drinking water food and shelter, medical supplies to the disaster
site.  Who gets the supplies is irrelevant at this moment.  The
im****tant thing is to get the stuff there on the ground.  Then argue
about the fairness and the morality of allocation.  

If the regime is stupid enough to hoard the supplies only for itself
then the anger of the people will have a unstoppable basis to topple
the regime with. By then their lives are already written off and dying
with a bullet is better than their families and themselves slowly
starving to death.  The ordinary army  ranks will certain not sup****t
a regime that immoral for their own families will also die in the
disaster.