It breaks my heart to see human beings under virtual serfdom.

and the western world watches ‘dancing with the stars’ and goes to bed.

president shrub snores. and britney cries.

You guys don’t listen to the news do you? The Bush administration, as well as a number of the other “first world countries”, have publicly denounced what took place and are begining to impose heavy sanctions on the country’s leaders and its financial backers. My God, its even on NPR! Staying ignorant to what is actually going on is not an excuse to blame people you personally hate for issues you know nothing about. RS and the Daily Show are not news. Blogs and news fakers do not keep you informed. You can be liberal and still be informed, people! It’s called NPR, or CBS, or NBC. There is no excuse for mindless hate.

By the way, Tim, thanks for covering an actual story for once. Myanmar and Sudan and being grossly overlooked by the news media.

Myanmar has been grossly overlooked since Than Shwe took over in 92…the man is a stalinist crook, and the international community should do its best to help the Burmese people in their own self-realization

Myanmar has been grossly overlooked since Than Shwe took over in 92…the man is a stalinist crook, and the international community should do its best to help the Burmese people in their own self-realization

Kid,

You REALLY watch CBS and NBC? Why not ABC? I watch Leherer from time to time but that’s it.

Try Google News.

Merk: “international community should do its best to help the Burmese people in their own self-realization.”

Don’t you see the conundrum here? What you just said is EXACTLY the kind of rhetoric and action that pisses us ‘liberals’ off. Why is it that the people in Africa and other regions without sands full of oil get ‘international’ help, while the middle east gets the United States unilaterally? The conservatives/republicans BLAST the United Nations regularly, but when a nation without any resources to give is in trouble, let the UN do it, right?

Don’t you see the hypocricy?

The UN would have its uses, IF it were properly run…the only time the UN has really had its stuff together was during the korean war

the UN is a bloated, corrupt organization that too often passes meaningless resolutions instead of taking real action. And when you havd a nation like Libya on the Human Rights Council, its hard to take such an organization seriously

Rwanda, Kosovo, Darfur, now Myanmar, and the UN has done nothing…what good are they? As for the “unilaterally” stuff you’re comparing apples and oranges…no is talking about “invading” myanmar, sanctions would do just fine…if i remember, the US has just frozen all Burmese assets in US banks

being that i’m not a conservative, i could care less about your conundrum, sorry you liberals get pissed off about it, but i dont run US middle east policy…i do see a new league of nations repeating history…and when one says “UN intervention” all the really mean is US led intervention with whatever token force the UN sends…the UN doesnt do squat without some kind of US backing

Coach-

FYI…
Sudan is loaded with oil. Ever hear of PetroChina? The Horn of Africa is going to be one of the big oil-producing regions in the years to come. Myanmar is an untapped resource bonanza – including a small but significant, 40-60 million barrels of crude, not to mention lots of gas.

I am sure that you will be able to put forward some halfbaked explanation of how these facts are actually consistent with the idea that the current administration only seeks foreign policy opportunities that have the potential to enrich their cronies, but why don’t you just stop and consider the possiblity that world might be a little bit more complicated than you think it is.

Oh, I forgot, lots of oil in Canada, Mexico, Russia, Kazakhstan, Equatorial Guinnea, Brazil, etc. Do you supposed we’re getting ready to move in on them?

you really think the US is going to do something in darfur and not have china dropping exocets on the fleet? MYanmar, also a chinese protectorate.

AH, yea, lots of oil in those places too, but they are our trading partners… what a goofus, when you start from a point of writing angry, it shouldn’t be any surprise all the absurdity that comes out, the brain is absent during anger and only the hippocampus handles action. In other words, it shows your true nature…. a retard that likes to jump to conclusions and come up with absurd arguments to support an indefensible cause.

Jed-

How come the Chinese didn’t let fly with their ‘exocets’ when we moved in on all their oil claims in Iraq? You know, right before the Giant Haliburton Straw descended from the heavens and slurped up all of the Iraqi oil reserves. The machine is hungry. It needs to feed and is looking for the next hapless Petrotalitarian to topple. It wants to stick its straw somewhere and was thinking about Ann Coulter’s mouth, until someone told it about your ass.

“CCo”

RS and Daily, Colbert are more on top of the news than most of the network news…And it’s oh-so-sad!

And don’t ‘ya just ache for Stiles and Mitchell to become “CellMates” with some mean rappers-too bad Dahmler isn’t still alive.

Olbermann keeps addressing most of the issues and hoping Rather will do well in his lawsuit againtst CBS-they have really lowered their news standards to the floor in the past two years… Conservative City-News through the Filter.

I think we need to do more than sanctions in Darfur and Myanmar.
Maybe some financial backing U.N. troops(OOOps’cause our troops are Busy with delivering “Democracy to Iraq” – and, “making the Streets Safe for the masses”). We need to set an example, and challenge ourselves and other countries into providing aid/troops…(Working with the government or helping U.N. to Focus on Government/policies)-no occupation and no expectation of flowers of welcome). If there is not money in it for special interests, Bush will waffle on that, too.

And, the U.N. seemed to work quite well before Bush/Rove’s debasement of it, when they wouldn’t give the green light to Bush/Cheney/Oil/Military Industrial Complex Insight to “Go To War With Iraq”-imagine the lack of vision they paraded before the world! Yea, that terrible U.N.

Just not up to Par with the Bush Standard of ‘Strategery’ and global Insight! Nope, not the U.N. My, my, my! And look at all Bush has accomplised Here, There and Everywhere, Bad U.N.

wow, the story dropped out of the news like a hot potato. I guess those people are ok now. they have once again defeated the forces of totalitarianism with help from the international community.
YEA RIGHT!!

More like the military oppression is once again able to stiffle dissent or common decency by oppressing their people with impunity and probably the support of those who would much rather do business with the regime than require some semblance of humanity from them. I guess when a whole country is enslaved and it’s peoples labour stripped of it’s worth and given to a few individuals, it is much easier to do business with said individual than a people who have a stake in their future.