Thursday - October 22, 2009

Obama’s Newest Tyrant Buddy?

Is there one single despot this assclown won’t befriend? What’s the point here? Are we running low on bloodstones? The best way to contact this scumbag is with a JDAM.

The United States is preparing to send a rare mission to Burma but warns that its bid to engage the military junta after decades of hostility will be “slow and painful.”

Kurt Campbell, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia, said a team would head to Burma to follow up on talks last month in New York, which marked the highest-level US contact with the regime in nearly a decade.

But in testimony Wednesday before a House of Representatives committee, Campbell cautioned: “We expect engagement with Burma to be a long, slow, painful and step-by-step process.”

A Burma official on Thursday confirmed the “fact-finding” trip would take place next week. But the official gave no further details, saying the visit was still in the planning stages.

President Barack Obama’s administration last month concluded that the longstanding US approach of isolating Burma had failed to bear fruit but said it would not ease sanctions without progress on democracy and human rights.

In August, Burma’s military leader Than Shwe held an unprecedented meeting with a visiting US senator, Jim Webb, a leading advocate of engaging the junta.

Democratic Representative Joseph Crowley, one of Suu Kyi’s top champions in Congress, said he backed the new strategy in part because the Nobel laureate has indicated her support.

But Crowley warned: “It is a real possibility that the military regime will try and use ongoing talks to buy time, in order to proceed with a sham election they have scheduled for next year.”

The NLD plans to shun the elections, the first since a 1990 vote that the party won in a landslide. The junta ignored that result, and has kept Suu Kyi under house arrest for much of the past 20 years.

Representative Dana Rohrabacher, a conservative Republican, was one of the few to reject the US outreach altogether, questioning whether the Obama administration needs to learn more about the junta.

“With all due respect, we know all about Burma. It’s not an unknown quantity. It has a vicious gangster regime, one of the most despicable regimes in this planet,” he said.

“We are saying that they are a legitimate government to sit down with. They are not.”

I think that the most we will get out of this is yet another opportunity for some piss stained tin pot dictator to embarrass the United States. Thanks a bunch, ya stoopid Kenyan.

And if you have forgotten what the Burma situation is all about - not just their psycho crazy leader not allowing all those relief supplies after the typhoon the other year - Gateway Pundit has more: in 2007 several thousand Buddhist monks lead a protest for democracy. The government gunned them down in the streets. A Japanese journalist was covering the protest. They killed him too.  Murdering thugs run Burma, and they have turned the entire country into slaves. We don’t need to talk to them. We need to kill them. And then let the Burmese form a new government. But no. This is Obama’s new plan of “engagement” at work. Let’s talk to all our enemies, all the shitdogs around the world. And maybe we can talk them into holding hands, making S’Mores around the campfire, and singing Kumbayah with us. Riiiiiight.

It also takes a remarkable degree of cynicism—or perhaps cowardice—to treat human rights as something that “interferes” with America’s purposes in the world, rather than as the very thing that ought to define them. Yet that is exactly the record of Mr. Obama’s time thus far in office.

Posted by Drew458     on 10/22/2009 at 01:46 PM   
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