Crime Against Humanity

What is happening in Myanmar right now is literally a crime against humanity. Not only because the Myanmar government is limiting the amount of aid that can be brought in but the government is reported to be stealing aid AND because the Western countries aren't doing enough to force them to open up to help the desperate citizens that have been effected by the cyclones TWO weeks ago.

The UN is having meetings on what to do. That is always helpful, meetings solve everything....

What would President Me do? I'd treat the barbaric government that has ruled Myanmar with an iron hand as the barbarians they are. I'd order aid airdropped into the most devastated areas escorted by fighters. I'd airdrop everything needed to prevent the famine that is sure to happen shortly from now. Then it would be time to deal with the government.

I'd have the leader's head on a stake. I'd shock and awe every low rent military installation they have ever had and project a level of force they have never dreamed of.

That government must be toppled or potentially hundreds of thousands could die. To put that into perspective the 2004 Indonesian Tsunami death toll topped 240,000. High yet early estimates so far indicate that if a full famine were to break out in Myanmar the cost of doing nothing could reach into the millions since rice stocks have been destroyed.

There are so many places that deserve attention around the world, Darfur for instance, completely deserves international intervention to stop the rampant genocide happening today. It just seems that even though many people have good intentions few have the will to carry out a radical solution of toppling a government bent on making sure its population is dead. They don't want aid, it would help bolster their control if the people in the outlying areas died off during this catastrophe. Totalitarian regimes do that. Life is meaningless to them while power is everything.

What is wrong with the world today when you can't just go get the guys in the black hats and string them up?