My thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Myanmar; regarding US aid, I can only imagine that the people of Myanmar’s initial thoughts might have gone something like this: “judging from your response to Katrina and from the leadership of the likes of Brownie, we’ll have to pass.”

All this reminds me of my memories with the natural earth quake disaster in Pakistan. nearly 100,000 people died during that natural horrific event. A whole generation wiped… Kinda like what were seeing here! It’s a shame why the government wont allow further assistance for their people.

cyclone is like a tornado, and a typhoon is like a hurricane.

For ONCE America has a chance to get it right! JUST DO IT! With a million people starving to death and bodies rotting in the streets, the world will finally applaud an invasion.
You know the good Samaritan rule? You can’t break into a house, but if it’s on fire you can break to rescue lives.
I’m not an historian. I don’t know the whole list of American invasions that were second guessed or wrong. Late entry into WW2, VietNam, Chile, Iraq times 2. Anybody remember Croatia and Serbia, and haven’t there been a some Central American operations.
The Americans have a relief fleet in the area and helicopters in Thailand. The USA are letting people starve to death because some petty dictator won’t give his permission to assist!? I give you permission! Go in and save some lives!
Let the dictator have a tantrum!
Wagons ho!!!!
GO GO GO! or sit on your thumbs like you did after Katrina?
GO

One has to wonder if Myanmar authorities are preventing journalists to enter the country to take advantage of this immense tragedy to eliminate the opposition such as among others, the Buddhist monks who were arrested recently. The thought is chilling.

It is very difficult to not be pessimistic about this event. It appears that the Myanmar junta is using a classic ploy of instilling fear of foreigners and their beliefs into the mind of their citizens. That is interesting because to this uneducated observer but lifelong voter, there appears to have some similarities to this approach in our War on Terror. Gives a person some factors to wrap his mind around in this election year in the US.