Burma is on its own

by Barry Artiste | May 12, 2008 at 07:26 am

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Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor

I seriously for a rare time at a loss for words, Burma's misplaced pride after the fall of a hundred thousand of it's dead, pretty much says it all of a country who place propaganda over the lives of it's people, as we sit helpless and watch in horror as more deaths will unlikely unfold because of a Military Despot.

What can we do for the people of Burma if their government will not grant foreign relief workers visas to enter the country after last weekend's cyclone?," a colleague asked last Friday.

The short answer is: Pray for the souls of those who have died and pray again that those still alive manage somehow to survive, because the real answer -- the one the world knows to be true but won't admit -- is nothing can be done if the Burmese junta won't allow it.

The problem in Burma, Darfur, Zimbabwe, Lebanon and most humanitarian-crisis hotspots is that short of invasion there is little, if anything, the world can do except sit back and watch. And the world is not going to invade.