In response to the violence, the United Nations Security Council called an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss the crisis, but China blocked a Council resolution, backed by the United States and European nations, to condemn the government crackdown.To quote the narrator from Fight Club, "I am Bill's complete lack of surprise". In some more ineffectual, "international diplomacy" waffle-speak:
At the United Nations, President Bush on Tuesday announced a largely symbolic tightening of American sanctions against Myanmar’s government. The European Union threatened to tighten its own sanctions if violence was used. On Wednesday, the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, said the first step after any meeting of the Security Council should be to send a United Nations envoy to Myanmar.Symbolic gestures, as people die. So much for G.W. Bush's War on Terror - governments that seize power by force gain legitimacy aren't terrorists, so we don't need to do anything about it.
That's what Al-Qaeda should do to get U.S. troops off their backs - topple a 3rd world nation and rule as a military junta.
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wasn't that what the Taliban was all about?
So true.
Those fundamental crazies forgot an important aspect of the "legitimacy via strong-arm methods" tactic - you're supposed to prostrate yourself before a chosen larger power with low moral standards (such as China or Russia), and turn up most of your fossil fuels to them. Then you're safe as houses with your brutal rule, as other nations are reluctant to blow you up in order to preserve their own "nicey-nice" with the larger power.
It's a colonialism of the 21st century - puppet states setup for the purpose of obtaining resources. (Sounds like it should be included in Sid Meier's Civilization V)
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