[combat_boots]

It's not like giving money to an aid group or charity is going to make a difference for this one.

[o_zarkman44]

Darwinism is alive and well.

People will suffer only for so long before their either give up and die, or replace the cause of the suffering with people who care.

[combat_boots]

Now there is a report on USA Today that a Red Cross boat with aid SANK. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-05-11-burma-aid_N.htm?csp=34

[2ndDivisionVet]

If there's nothing you can do, then there's nothing you can do: We can't force the Burmese government to accept aid. I recall seeing a thread where some liberal was encouraging the United States to INVADE Burma so as to help the Burmese people. Funny how we were excoriated for doing that in two other countries during the Bush administration, yet now it's a good idea!

[Batrachian]

At the risk of sounding selfish, I find it frustrating that every time there's some disaster in the world, everyone automatically looks to us to "do something about it".

Still, in the face of this catastrophe, my frustrations mean little.

[doggieboy]

We should airlift weapons. Those people need to overthrow that government.

[norton]

Quick google for ‘burma, golden triangle’ seems stuck in 1999 but if it’s still up and running then nobody is going to get in just to save a few thousand peasants.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

There are more than 140 distinct clans in Burma. There have always been refugees...

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Send Jimmy Carter and Obama. They’ll fix it.