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2006-05-15 Southeast Asia

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Posted by Fred 2006-05-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Someone has delusions of grandeur.

Posted by ed 2006-05-15 01:05|| 2006-05-15 01:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Chavez Syndrome?

Posted by Grung Glineger9230 2006-05-15 01:20|| 2006-05-15 01:20|| Front Page Top

#3 You know the Army - they taught soldiers German and Russian, etal. to fight and win the Cold War and thats why they were sent to Burma. The Burmese as a class do have mostly pro-China sympathies but are fiercely independent and anti-Communist - for me, this is their way of getting back at the USA for the USA's neglect of them during the Cold War. Personally, I don't blame them or can't get very angry at them. BURMA vv its locale has been used and abused by all of the Cold War superpowers or major powers against each other, plus every other larger non-Burmese/Third World Nation-State in South Asia. Iff I were Dubya, I'd say give them more econ aid + send advisors [Pol. + Mil + Business] and investments their way. Its time America-West gave Burma something back.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-05-15 01:56|| 2006-05-15 01:56|| Front Page Top

#4 No wonder they moved the capital to the middle of the jungle!

(Sorry Joe, no can do.)

Posted by Spot">Spot 2006-05-15 09:19|| 2006-05-15 09:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Joe, sorry. The current government is among the most oppressive in the world, rivaling North Korea. They are also allowing the Chinese to build at least one naval base on their territory.

The Indians are greatly interested in this situation. They have suffered repeated border incursions from Myanmar.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2006-05-15 10:09|| http://blog.simmins.org]">[http://blog.simmins.org] 2006-05-15 10:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Mannmar has huge slave mines and such that put the soviet era gulags to shame.

Posted by 3dc 2006-05-15 10:12|| 2006-05-15 10:12|| Front Page Top

#7 What? No threats about Myanmar being the "graveyard of the Americans" or an invasion being a "stinging defeat to the infidel crusaders"?

Posted by Whineger Javing6236 2006-05-15 11:39|| 2006-05-15 11:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Not that we wouldn't like to string you up General, but you're f*cking crazy. There's approximately zero percent chance that you're even on the Bush, Rumsfeld or Rice radar.

Love the uniform though.....

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-15 15:19|| 2006-05-15 15:19|| Front Page Top

#9 you just know he smokes cigarettes through a cig holder, eh?

Posted by Frank G 2006-05-15 15:31|| 2006-05-15 15:31|| Front Page Top

#10 It's the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2006-05-15 19:25|| 2006-05-15 19:25|| Front Page Top

#11 I'd always thought Burma was in the Un witness protection program under a false name. If they keep popping off people will notice and recognize them.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2006-05-15 21:47|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com] 2006-05-15 21:47|| Front Page Top

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