Burma has the West over a barrel

[kurtz]

No but there are parrallels.

and maybe it was not given as the reason at first when people started to laugh at the WMDs which could be deployed at 40mins notice the genocide reason was trotted out at least in Blighty.

But what you are saying really is that it is okay to break international law and invade soveriegn territory with the express intention of killing individualls without trial. This may be the right thing to do but who are you going to entrust the decision to do what is right to?..the USA?..UN...England?..Skybird?

[Tchocky]

Knock off the top of the army. You're left with the next layer of commanders, who are just thrilled to be in charge. THere's 350,000 soldiers, so this will take a while to knock down to 3 or 4.

The only result is that instead of victims of a natural disaster, they'll be all that plus hostages.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by kurtz

No but there are parrallels.

and maybe it was not given as the reason at first when people started to laugh at the WMDs which could be deployed at 40mins notice the genocide reason was trotted out at least in Blighty.

But what you are saying really is that it is okay to break international law and invade soveriegn territory with the express intention of killing individualls without trial. This may be the right thing to do but who are you going to entrust the decision to do what is right to?..the USA?..UN...England?..Skybird?

Why is invasion always mentioned? I said repeatedly now that I have no idea for invasions, and huge wars. the intel services surely know the locations of houses and villas. That translates into GPS coordinates. Send a missile there, and to likely locations where the person in question at the time of the strike is present. Period. No bridge bombing. No power plants destroyed. No divison fighting it out on the map.

If international law allows mass dying taking place for reasons of concerns like you are raising them, then something is wrong with international law. BTW, the UN anti-genocide-charta labels action in case of genocide as mandatory and obligatory - signing states have no other choice by valid international laws then to implement those measures needed to prevent genocide. Which is why so often in case of genocides you see diplomats balancing words and avoiding terms so often in order to avoid such a horrific event being claled genocide - because then their nations would have a binding obligation to do what is needed to prevent genocide. And such investements often are not wanted, especially when it is not about oil or other precious ressources.

Tchocky,
kill a dozen generals and colonels and illustrate that you do not stop at their dorrsteps - and you will have triggered creative thought processes in the braisn of two hundred other generals and colonels. Most likely you do not need to bomb everyone of them. Just help them to get an impression that you are determined to go as far as needed, and they will change. Promised. I said I am not about enforced regime change, so if after the current top being killed, the colonels become generals and take over, it is not really a concern for me as long as these new generals have learned their lesson and allow aid being send in - as the price for themselves being inpower now.

all I want is enforce unlimited access for foreign aid to the affected regions and the population, without the Junta interfering with good transports, and taking its share, and without needing to accept their blackmailing. that is the objective, precise and clearly.