Burma (Myanmar) held a Presidential Election in 1990, and when a person opposing the military government won in a huge upset, they imprisoned her and put her on house arrest for 13 years! billions of people around the world live in oppressive countries and have no chance for happiness. since we are the most powerful country in the world, and we love to remind the world of that, shouldn't we do something about? if not, should the U.N.? funny you say that.. if u check my other questions and answers you'll see that i'm about as "Liberal" as they come. :) true Mahesh, and Rwanda, and Somalia, etc. etc. etc. they only care about the places with oil.
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No
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no, the UN should
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No way! Let the people there work it out, I want the government of America to look after Americans
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No let the brits handle it that use to be their part of the world
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no, but we should pressure them economically and diplomatically
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I know a girl who was born and raised in Burma for 12 years. She has told me some HORRIFIC stories. But I do not believe America should intervene, she has told me many times that they want the English to intervene, but the English pretend that it is a civil war that they must handle themselves.
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Once I figure out how to vote for that, I will. But until then it's up to our government. They make those kind of decisions for us.
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Yes. Just leave cameras at home, though.
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Are you trying to upset liberals? I think that some kind of pressure should be put on them by the UN.
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Myanmar is undergoing what some have described as a slow-motion genocide. Of course we should do something but the liberals would scream their heads off if we did. They apparently think a million deaths is better than "U.S. imperialism". In the case of Rwanda they certainly did.
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I hate to say this, but America has always been hypocrite. It only does things which benefit itself. Take for example Iraq, they have huge oil reserves. It destroyed Iraq in the name of Weapons of Mass Destruction but the reality is that it wanted to utilize the oil reserves. If US is so concerned about the world (It should be concerned coz it is the most powerful country), it should have done something about Zimbabwe whose condition is worst than Iraq. Thousands of ppl have died in Zimbabwe under Mugabe regime. I dont think it will interfere in Burmese politics becoz it will not gain anything from doing it.
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Guatamala had elected a very popular man as president on a campaign promise of land reform. The United Fruit Company, with the help of Edward Bernays, successfully solicited the United States to intervene on behalf of their interests. The CIA organized, funded, and aided a military coup that destroyed their democracy and installed a military dictator that subsequently slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people during his regime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d'%C3%A9tat Iran had elected a very popular man as president of the only democracy in the middle east on the campaign promise that the revenue from the oil would be used to aid the common Iranian. But a consortium of oil interests convinced the U.S. govt. to intervene on their behalf. The CIA organized, armed, and planned and coup that toppled their democracy and installed a dictator that subsequently opened up the oil fields for foreign oil companies. Trillions of dollars in oil revenue left the country without a single penny finding its way to the Iranian people. When he decided that foriegn oil workers would be exempt from all Iranian laws - even in cases of rape and murder, the college students started protesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat This resulted in the forcible removal of the Shaw and the installation of Ayatollah Khomeini. The rest of the story is probably familiar to you already. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution We tried to intervene in Nicaragua by organizing a resistance to a popularly elected government that promised land reform. They started their campaign by assassinating a well loved Catholic bishop and subsequently bombed out elementary schools, hospitals, outreach centers, raped and murdered children, civilians, and ended their violent uprising by raping and killing two nunns and a priest. The Iran-Contra scandal also resulted from our efforts to intervene in their nation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras There is also evidence that we helped Pinochet with his coup. He subsequently massacred tens of thousands of people. We intervened and aided Marcos in the Phillippines and Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Both used assassinations, imprisonment, and death squads to maintain their power. http://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/volumes/2004/landman-2004.pdf http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Pool/1644/marcosera.html America has lost the moral authority to intervene in anyone's affairs a long time ago.
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No It is none of our business. We need to clean up our own act before we go around the world pretending to be holier than thou. This is a country where a criminal administration that was probably never elected and which committed atrocious crimes against humanity (such as using torture) is allowed to go free. This is a country where numerous people are held in jail for victimless "crimes" such as smoking the wrong plant, engaging in sex for money, exercising their 2nd amendment rights without a permission slip from the government, and numerous other absurd "crimes." We are a country with a long history of criminalizing dissent and of being intolerant toward people with different points of view (in Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville remarked that Americans had the least freedom of expression of any people in the world, which is especially ironic for a country that pretends to believe in freedom of speech; never was this more clear than during World War I, when opponents of the war were assaulted by mobs, leaders of opposition political parties jailed for giving anti-war speeches, and movie producers jailed for producing movies about the Revolutionary War). We live in an oppressive and tyrannical country, yet far too many of us are focused on reforming backward Oriental despotisms that have never adhered to our alleged values instead of trying to make our own country consistent with what it claims to be its values.
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No. Let some other country or the UN interfere. I'm sick of the world complaining if we interfere and whining if we don't. I think it's time we took care of our own problems here at home. I hear China and India are the next super powers. Let them cut their teeth on this problem.
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Why not? Seems to work out pretty well every other time we do..
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