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On Democracy and Humanrights in Burma
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Do you think the United States and the United Nations really helping Burma?Bush extends one year sanctions on Burma?Does this really necessary for him to do?He can help the country by doing many other ways to regain its democracy and human rights.What do you guys think? :mad
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Except it seems to be the US is one of the leading lights in putting pressure on Burma, whereas its China and Russia who are holding it back.
Also a link to the original story might be nice.
And indeed - what right to interfere in another countries matters - over democracy - after the US and UK are both guilty of "losing" votes? Perhaps a little convieniently?
Sanctinos are hardly going to help either are they? They SURE help Palestine. And as for imprisonment - there are lots of people illegally held in Guantanamo - Cubah as pointed this out to the UN - who promtly ignored it and stuffed it under the carpet. Never mind, people will forget eventually.
We cannot even sort our own house out, have failed to sort out Iraq or Afghanistan effectivley - what right do we have to tell others what to do?
What are you criticising them for - not doing good or doing it?
It's catch 22 - they're damned if tehy do, damned if they don't. So I say - just stay out, and you've annoyed one less country. Besides, you don't HONESTLY think they would do it if somehow it didn't benefit them?
What I have said is - so, they are doing it for personal gain not good. If they argue they are doing it for good, I can defeat that argument well with the last one posted there, by pointing out they have no right to even do that.
Before even claiming to try to sort out someone elses house, it helps if your own is in order. Which the US's blatantly isn't.
It may be hypocrisy on the US part, but its also hypocrisy to complain about human right abuses in other countries in places like Palestine etc, but then suddenly turn round say 'We shouldn't interfere' if its Burma and its the US doing the interfering.
I'd prefer it if the US followed its own rules and made all nations follow the same rules, instead of excluding itself and friendly nations. It'd be the same if they told China to stop occupying Tibet whislt still in Iraq. As such, the US should release it's illegally held prisoners before telling Tibet too, and be slightly more Liberal and Democratic before tellnig the rest of the world to do so. They don't have to be perfect, just set a good example. Which they are doing a piss poor job of. They're getting highly totalitarian whilst shouting about freedom. Shades of the fucking USSR.
Let's face it, the US is self-interested, every country is self-interested and what is there in Burma that can benefit the greedy materialistic west?
Burma is one of the world's poorest countries and with poverty comes issues such as lack of education and without education, how can an infrastructure be built? When you place sanctions on a country it does them no favours, it harms the most vulnerable people and with a junta that will happily put dissidents in dog kennels and torture and murder activists, I hardly think they will care about the poorest people who will end up dead. Look at what sanctions did to Iraq.
As for what can be done... I don't know. Unless there is an economic incentive (it's not too far from Tibet so may possibly have oil? I thought Burma's economy would be more agriclture and textile based however) to intervein, I don't see how anyone will give a shit. Sad as it is.
Burma would need a shit ton of work. The junta would have to go, people would have to be educated, roads built effectively, a lot of work done with human rights... It is one hell of a job making changes there.