they shoot monks, don't they?
My feelings about Burma, Myanmar, pick one, keep dissolving into a defeatist oh, fuck. I don't have enough optimism to think that international disapproval or increased trade embargo by the west are really going to faze the junta like, at all, as long as they've got indulgent neighbors, which, yeah.
I can't seem to get Kenji Nagai's death out of my head. Not because oh noes, shooting an innocent bystander! who was just doing his job! or however the appropriate rhetoric goes--I think journalists going into a conflict zone have thought about the risks, or if they haven't they're better out of the gene pool. War correspondents just fascinate me. How do you get into the business? Is it people with an insanely strong social conscience or reckless thrill-seekers? I think you'd have to be both. Except then you have the Anna Politkovskayas and, yeah.
Click, click, click, click, click, click himself under.
I can't seem to get Kenji Nagai's death out of my head. Not because oh noes, shooting an innocent bystander! who was just doing his job! or however the appropriate rhetoric goes--I think journalists going into a conflict zone have thought about the risks, or if they haven't they're better out of the gene pool. War correspondents just fascinate me. How do you get into the business? Is it people with an insanely strong social conscience or reckless thrill-seekers? I think you'd have to be both. Except then you have the Anna Politkovskayas and, yeah.
Click, click, click, click, click, click himself under.