Zach LarkinsTROUBLE IN MYANMAR
This has been bugging me for a while, so I thought I'd share it with you.
Buddhist monks in Myanmar (formerly Burma) have been walking the streets of this country in protest over its current government. Now, I don't know about you, but I think if you can get to the point where you piss off a bunch of Buddhists, you just have to know you're doing something very, very wrong.
Buddhists are known far and wide for literally not wanting to hurt a fly. Me, I'll hurt 'em. I hate flies. But Buddhists go out of their way to resect all God's creatures and take great pains not to hurt a single one of them. They are polar opposites of fundamentalist Muslims who want blow up everything and everybody who does not conform with their way of seeing things.
Where and when will this Myanmar protest end? As usual the useless UN won't do anything other than sit back and watch the country's leader abuse his people. For those who think the war in Iraq is strictly about oil, GWB is not going into Myanmar anytime soon. Not because of the lack of oil, but I think he's just tired of being battered by his political foes and is looking forward to retirement. That should make the Lib / Dem's very happy as they can try to talk the situation to death.
Does America need another doer more than a talker? I would think so and you certainly won't find much doing coming out of Hillary. She learned well from John Kerry. Remember the famous 'Yes I voted for it before I voted against it' quote? She's starting with that nonsense herself now, meaning you won't see much leadership coming from her.
I realize that it appears the USA is about to spread itself a bit thinner, with it's eye on Iran, but who can blame them? Iran has disrespected the States for some time now, denied the Holocaust and vowed to drive Israel into the sea. Am-a-nut-job keeps insisting he wants nuclear power to produce energy for his people. Why? He's sitting on one of the largest oil deposits in the world and between him and his buddy Hugo Chavez could run their countries for years without needing nuclear power. Russia wants to buy some of his oil. What will they give him in return? Rubles? I doubt it. Am-a-nut-job will demand technology and possibly warheads to 'protect' his country.
I think when the American election is over, Hillary will probably end up as prez and that will be a shame. The USA has to re-group and re-think its strengths and weaknesses. It needs a strong, confident leader who isn't afraid of the UN and is willing to accept the American role in the world as its policeman.
Hopefully the trouble and strife in Myanmar will be over before any more people get killed there.
Buddhist monks in Myanmar (formerly Burma) have been walking the streets of this country in protest over its current government. Now, I don't know about you, but I think if you can get to the point where you piss off a bunch of Buddhists, you just have to know you're doing something very, very wrong.
Buddhists are known far and wide for literally not wanting to hurt a fly. Me, I'll hurt 'em. I hate flies. But Buddhists go out of their way to resect all God's creatures and take great pains not to hurt a single one of them. They are polar opposites of fundamentalist Muslims who want blow up everything and everybody who does not conform with their way of seeing things.
Where and when will this Myanmar protest end? As usual the useless UN won't do anything other than sit back and watch the country's leader abuse his people. For those who think the war in Iraq is strictly about oil, GWB is not going into Myanmar anytime soon. Not because of the lack of oil, but I think he's just tired of being battered by his political foes and is looking forward to retirement. That should make the Lib / Dem's very happy as they can try to talk the situation to death.
Does America need another doer more than a talker? I would think so and you certainly won't find much doing coming out of Hillary. She learned well from John Kerry. Remember the famous 'Yes I voted for it before I voted against it' quote? She's starting with that nonsense herself now, meaning you won't see much leadership coming from her.
I realize that it appears the USA is about to spread itself a bit thinner, with it's eye on Iran, but who can blame them? Iran has disrespected the States for some time now, denied the Holocaust and vowed to drive Israel into the sea. Am-a-nut-job keeps insisting he wants nuclear power to produce energy for his people. Why? He's sitting on one of the largest oil deposits in the world and between him and his buddy Hugo Chavez could run their countries for years without needing nuclear power. Russia wants to buy some of his oil. What will they give him in return? Rubles? I doubt it. Am-a-nut-job will demand technology and possibly warheads to 'protect' his country.
I think when the American election is over, Hillary will probably end up as prez and that will be a shame. The USA has to re-group and re-think its strengths and weaknesses. It needs a strong, confident leader who isn't afraid of the UN and is willing to accept the American role in the world as its policeman.
Hopefully the trouble and strife in Myanmar will be over before any more people get killed there.
Protests for democracy in any country should make people sit up and take notice. People only protest for things they want... let that be a lesson for all the libs/dems who think democracy is overrated, huh?
As for the UN doing anything to stop the riots or killing anywhere, think Darfur. Think Iraq (back in the bad old Saddam days). The Un is an embarrassment to the whole world these days and should be ignored as the foolish debating society it has become.
The prospect of a Prez. Hillary makes me feel ill. We would never get to know what she really thought about anything and as for what she might do, who knows? She sure doesn't!!
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I don't want to see Hillary in either, but unfortunantly, it looks at this point that she's going to make it. Remember she had practice with Slick Willy so even giving her a year to screw up royally I don't think will happen.
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