[JRandomFreeper]

We will have to take over that country to save it.

/johnny

[bvw]

Better than the aid not getting distributed at all.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Is anyone here at FR that has ever lived or visited the Third World surprised by this? I lived in what is arguably the nicest and least corrupt country in Asia and this is like hearing that the sun came up this morning.

[vpintheak]

Thanks to lieberals, coming to a country near you.

[ops33]

Google has removed the link from its home page for making donations for relief to Burma. It was there yesterday. I guess just about everybody has figured out that any aid donated to the victims of that storm will just be stolen. My prayers for the poor people of that country.

[B-Chan]

May God help the people of Burma.

As for the government of “Myanmar”, I say napalm them all. I would love to watch those cold-blooded bastards wither like moths in a big zapper as stick after stick of W-77s rained down on their empty skulls. No more deserving crew ever lived. We should blacken the skies over Burma with A-10s and Predators and kill every man jack of them.

And the same goes for Kim Jong Illness, the government of the People’s Republic of China, and for every group of power-mad thugs who smirk cooly from behind their mirrored sunglasses while their people suffer and die. I look forward to the Day when God — the Just Judge and the Source of all authority — will settle their tab.

[JimSEA]

"If they see our relief supplies, they will come over and say 'don’t worry, give that to us, we will distribute it for you',” he said.

"But we know that for every ten sacks of rice we give them, only four will reach the people.

"The other six will end up being sold by that official on a market in some local town. Rice prices are very high right now and that official will then make a good profit.

And that is the way the Generals pay back their low ranking officials. Following a long tradition but in dire circumstances now. These "officials" can watch their neighbor die without feeling a thing. That is how the generals stay in power. The military/police/local administrators are allowed to profit while the rice farmers, monks and shopkeepers starve.

[supremedoctrine]

This might as well be called “The Story of Foreign Aid”.
Even in the best of (non-emergency) circumstances, this serves as a model for understanding where the hundreds of TRILLIONS of dollars that we have poured into other countries have actually gone.

[supremedoctrine]

This might as well be called “The Story of Foreign Aid”.
Even in the best of (non-emergency) circumstances, this serves as a model for understanding where the hundreds of TRILLIONS of dollars that we have poured into other countries have actually gone.