May 14, 2008...9:58 am
Enough With This Myanmar/Burma/Whatever Shit Already
Celebrate duders. That’s right, we said celebrate: We here at Um have finally reached a point where the homework/funtimes writing balance has tipped in favor of blogging. Hu-rah!
All chair-dancing Bar/Bat Mitzvahs aside, we’d like to express our concern about the situation in Myanmar (really, you shouldn’t have to click on that link or any of the ones below unless you’ve been, like, focused on earthquake clean-up or something)–you know: Cyclone hits, folks get swamped, lotsa people die, the world offers aid (and a whole lotta rhetoric about how crappy the country’s ruling regime is), the nutty generals who run that country say eff you, we don’t want yr stupid help (and then well…okay, maybe we’ll take just a little), the UN gets pissed (or as pissed as the UN can get) and sends out a statement that reads, in part, “‘Frustrations have been growing that this humanitarian response is being held back because of difficulties of access in different ways,’” [John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator] said, noting that many visas are still pending.
UGH. Will you shut the fuck up already, John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator? Look, what happened? It sucks. And it sure would be great if those kooky guys who run things in Myanmar were happy to receive aid from the rest of the world. But, know what? They’re not.
And they’ve probably got some solid reasons for it. Maybe something along the lines of: Hey, recent trends have shown that when some of these folks talk shit about a dictatorship, it serves as a prelude to the fact that they might just do everything in their power to make-up an excuse to invade the country that it rules.
Um. Did we just figure out a way to link the war in Iraq to the Myanmar cyclone? Yes. Yes I believe that we just did.
Maybe? Nah…not yet.
2 Comments
May 15, 2008 at 2:27 pm
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June 20, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Yazoo!
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