BUSH WARNS MYANMAR OF WORLD SANCTIONS... IF IT CONTINUES TO IGNORE CALLS FOR A DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION
Agence France-Presse - 12/12/2007 1:57 AM
"The United States will spearhead a global campaign to step up sanctions against Myanmar's military regime if it continues to ignore calls for a democratic transition, President George W. Bush warned Tuesday.
The threat came after the US House of Representatives Tuesday adopted sanctions against Myanmar's multi-million dollar gemstone exports and natural gas industry, in response to the military junta's lethal crackdown on September pro-democracy protests.
At least 31 people were killed and 74 missing in the suppression of protests that were led by Buddhist monks, according to a UN report.
Bush repeated his call for the regime to release all political prisoners, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest."
Goodness gracious me. It seems to me that Bush is not yet satisfied with his ailing Afghanistan-Iraq endeavor. Now, he has decided to shift America's hegemonic weight to South-East Asia, namely Myanmar for some unknown reasons. Perhaps he wants to seek some vindication for his failur... I mean misadventure in the Middle East. Or he simply wants to spread (impose) Democracy around the world. Maybe he just wants to show whose the Boss.
Dear Mr. Bush, please wake up your idea.
As a president, you should know better than to start creating another problem when you still got your hands full on existing ones, namely Iraq and Afghanistan. On the surface, America seems to have full control over Iraq. But in reality, America only controls Baghdad, the Iraqi capital. Outside the those capital walls, lawlessness rules. Tribal chiefs decapitate people like pigs and the terrorists group launches surprise attacks every now and then on the US Army. 5 years into the Iraq War and the death toll has never dropped. More and more soldiers "die for their country" with each passing day.
Now, the most powerful administration in the world is in a deadlock. Bush can choose to stay in Iraq, but doing so will only mean more soldiers are going to get killed. Seeing the situation, its going to take the US Army a long long time to eradicate all threats in Iraq. Think about the number of soldiers that are going to die and the amount of money that is going to be wasted. Eventually, Americans at home are going to complain about the situation in Iraq. Alternatively, the President can choose to pull out of Iraq, but doing so will create a power vacuum and will eventually lead to a civil war between all the factions in Iraq. America will be criticized internationally as a "a country that invaded for no reason and left shit for the Iraqis".
I appreaciate the American president for his firm belief in democracy but he has to right to impose his belief in other countries. Whether other nations want to endorse democracy or not is up to them to decide. How a government wants to rules its country is its internal affairs. Therefore, Bush has no reason to demand other country to turn democratic. At best, he can only suggest. He is in no position vto say democracy is good and communism is evil. Such ideas are subjective. One man's fish might be another man's anthrax. One interesting fact; so far, the countries Bush invaded, for being totalitarian, are weak, third world countries. Russia is also another country with conflicting political system with America. The same goes for China. So why don't I see Bush trying to preach to Vladimir Putin and Hu Jingtao?
Please Mr. Bush, take care of your own family matters first before trying to kay-poh into other people's affairs. For all you know, you might be the infamous president that brings America's reputation to a record low in the course of the nation's history.
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