troubles will come
New storm head toward cyclone-devastated Myanmar
Another powerful storm headed toward Myanmar's cyclone-devastated delta on Wednesday and the U.N. warned that inadequate relief efforts could lead to a second wave of deaths among the estimated 2 million survivors.
The country's junta told visiting Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, however, that it is in control of the relief operations and doesn't need foreign experts.
Samak visited a government relief center in Yangon and told reporters after returning to Bangkok that the junta has given him the "guarantee" that there are no disease outbreaks and no starvation among the cyclone survivors.
[Read the full article at Y! News]
I support Myanmar's "right" to be free of outsiders, in the sense that I don't think their actions regarding their recent disasters are reason to declare war or force an invasion. I think. It seems that there should be some holding accountable for the junta's actions, though. Somehow. Not infringing upon the "right" to national sovereignty, but in some way that teaches the junta that it's not wise or safe to be so exclusive in this community of a world that we have. I don't know.
C.S. Lewis said, and I wonder how this applies:
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satisfied; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own consciences.
Between China's earthquake, Myanmar's cyclones, Laura's family pressures, and Gerry's trip to Florida, my prayers have been filled up lately!
There are good things happening on the ground in China as an after-effect of the earthquakes. It's nice being in a position to be able to actually know this.
Another powerful storm headed toward Myanmar's cyclone-devastated delta on Wednesday and the U.N. warned that inadequate relief efforts could lead to a second wave of deaths among the estimated 2 million survivors.
The country's junta told visiting Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, however, that it is in control of the relief operations and doesn't need foreign experts.
Samak visited a government relief center in Yangon and told reporters after returning to Bangkok that the junta has given him the "guarantee" that there are no disease outbreaks and no starvation among the cyclone survivors.
[Read the full article at Y! News]
I support Myanmar's "right" to be free of outsiders, in the sense that I don't think their actions regarding their recent disasters are reason to declare war or force an invasion. I think. It seems that there should be some holding accountable for the junta's actions, though. Somehow. Not infringing upon the "right" to national sovereignty, but in some way that teaches the junta that it's not wise or safe to be so exclusive in this community of a world that we have. I don't know.
C.S. Lewis said, and I wonder how this applies:
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satisfied; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own consciences.
Between China's earthquake, Myanmar's cyclones, Laura's family pressures, and Gerry's trip to Florida, my prayers have been filled up lately!
There are good things happening on the ground in China as an after-effect of the earthquakes. It's nice being in a position to be able to actually know this.