Mr. Sparkle wrote:Tareeq wrote:Mr. Sparkle wrote:
Too much time spent debating whether Iran's president was a dictator or not? Too bad. Maybe you will find time in the future to devote yourself to more worthwhile issues.
With apologies to Freud:
There was a man named Mr. Sparkle
Who frequently waxed retorical
He felt it his right
To wade into fights
His issues were all matriarchal.
Hahahaha... good one! Oh wait... people are dead.
Stop you before you kill again?
To deal with what I believe your misunderstanding over my jab at Ironrod to have been, the United States has economic and diplomatic sanctions in place against the junta that controls Burma. We have encouraged right-thinking allies to do the same. We have been frustrated in our attempts to widen these sanctions through the United Nations by Burma's enablers China and Russia, who consistently veto such measures. In fact, yesterday the most the UN Security Council could do, due to the intransigence of these powers, was to pass a resolution authorizing and the envoy of the Secretary General to visit Burma, and encouraging the junta to listen to him.
Ironrod is evidently of the opinion that we aren't doing enough, but what more can we do? Making the political personal, I do believe that you would oppose military action against the Burmese junta, but if not you have some consistency checking to do, as the Burmese junta is nowhere near as loathsome as was the Ba'athist regime in Iraq, which you evidently believe we toppled for the reasons suggested by Mearsheimer and Walt.
Is it your position that we should topple the regime in Burma, which isn't committing genocide but is merely a tyranny? I know you've suggested that we do that in Sudan, for reasons I agree with somewhat, but if not what do you think we should do in Burma? Cut off free trade with China or destabilize the Putin regime? They seem to be the root of the problem, don't they?