Burma: It Can't Wait

[JimboUK]

Just throwing weapons at the Burmese people and leaving them to get on with it will no doubt lead to the slaughter of many and a humiliating defeat for the people. Rifles are no good against planes and tanks, it would need the military to stand aside and that doesn't look likely. The Libyan uprising would have been crushed had NATO not got involved, just prior to NATOs involvement Gaddafi's tanks were rolling towards Benghazi, had that fallen there would have been a massacre and the uprising would have been over.

 

you have a point, but dont forget also, that many a fall-pit of military dictatorships is that the more your ordering your troops to slaughter your own people, the more your troops will end up defecting to the other side

 

in the case of burma, i doubt those troops loyalty go very far beyond simply getting a nice paycheck. they allready did that "troop-shuffling" they do, when soldiers came to fire upon protesters. shuffling as in, they won't use local troops, cus local troops are very unwilling to start shooting inside their own home town.

the same type of shuffling was also done during the famous tiananmen square protests.

 

its not easy to run a dictatorship :D

 

There's self preservation as well, troops guilty of criminal acts have a vested interest in ensuring the status quo is maintained, the last thing they'd want is to face a court and be judged by the very people they've abused.

[zegh8578]

Just throwing weapons at the Burmese people and leaving them to get on with it will no doubt lead to the slaughter of many and a humiliating defeat for the people. Rifles are no good against planes and tanks, it would need the military to stand aside and that doesn't look likely. The Libyan uprising would have been crushed had NATO not got involved, just prior to NATOs involvement Gaddafi's tanks were rolling towards Benghazi, had that fallen there would have been a massacre and the uprising would have been over.

 

you have a point, but dont forget also, that many a fall-pit of military dictatorships is that the more your ordering your troops to slaughter your own people, the more your troops will end up defecting to the other side

 

in the case of burma, i doubt those troops loyalty go very far beyond simply getting a nice paycheck. they allready did that "troop-shuffling" they do, when soldiers came to fire upon protesters. shuffling as in, they won't use local troops, cus local troops are very unwilling to start shooting inside their own home town.

the same type of shuffling was also done during the famous tiananmen square protests.

 

its not easy to run a dictatorship :D

 

There's self preservation as well, troops guilty of criminal acts have a vested interest in ensuring the status quo is maintained, the last thing they'd want is to face a court and be judged by the very people they've abused.

 

of course

my original point was that such a matter is much more complex than "unmotivated civilians" vs the dictatorship, as many people tend to imply, on many a forum ive been on

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http://www.youtube.c...h?v=xK8inPfHg_0

This is one of the dumbest UN PR clips ive seen since a long time. You wanna gain my attention with titties, just to sell me the same BS these people spread about Lybia, Syria and other Countries which were choosen by them to be the new Hitler? First they, the same f*#@s which run the UNO, help these military dictators to power and then let us pay for the next war against them.

You know what the problem is? To less Freedome. And the US Troops didn't brought the US Constitution or the BoR to the iraqi people, and the s*** goes on.

 

There is no such thing as a good guy and a bad guy, there is no such thing as freedome trough government. Arm the people, arm them with fullautomatic firearms and you will have peace, and you will have freedom. Thats the lesson 1776 told us, anything other than this is bulls***.