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Robert Kaplan, who wrote the following about invading Burma to save it,

Of course, the approval of the United Nations Security Council would be best, but China — the junta’s best friend — would likely veto it.

...and this,

By just threatening intervention, the United States puts pressure on Beijing, New Delhi and Bangkok to, in turn, pressure the Burmese generals to open their country to a full-fledged foreign relief effort. We could do a lot of good merely by holding out the possibility of an invasion…

has an unusual gift for pissing off historians, academics, and all manner of policy wonks.

“Because he specializes in exploring the San Andreas faults of the modern geopolitical system, his books have had more influence on politicians and policy makers than most travel writing.”—Adam Garfinkle

“Kaplan’s real and growingly evident problem is not his Parkinson’s grip on history, or that he is a bonehead or a warmonger, but rather that he is an incompetent thinker and a miserable writer.” - Tom Bissell

“Just about every historical event or political philosopher he discusses he gets at least half-wrong.” - Donald Kagan

“Robert Kaplan set himself up to be the Kipling of the Empire that wasn’t.” - Thomas Grossman

“Kaplan, over his career, appears to have become someone who is too fond of war. - David Lipsky

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

LEIBERMAN NEO-LIBS AND PODHORETZ NEO-CONS DESPERATELY NEED TO ELECT MC-CAIN OR HILLARY

McCain’s ideological support comes from Podhoretz Neo-Cons and Leiberman Neo-Libs, not Reagan Conservatives nor Kennedy Liberals. These supporters have the same Neo-Marxist roots, which go back nearly 60 years, when millions of defeated Marxist immigrants from Nazi German and the Soviet Union were admitted by America, as desperate persecuted refugees; after all of the European nations wisely refused to take them.

By the McCarthy Era, many of these pathetic refugees had gotten good government positions; and, by way of showing their deep gratitude to the American People, they systematically corrupted the government and endangered national security, by working as spies for Marxist Russia. The most notorious of these spies, the Rosenbergs, were executed for treason. This had the intended beneficial effect of stopping most of the dangerous spying; but it had the unintended consequence of causing these Marxists to seek social and economic power by pretentiously assimilating into the Conservative Republican and Liberal Democrat parties; where they quickly evolved into the Neo-Conservatives and Neo-Liberals, with insidious ideological opposition to traditional Christian Culture and Constitutional Principles.  The result of the subversive influence by these self-serving Crypto-Neo-Marxists in the government, schools, news media and entertainment media was the increasingly intolerable cultural degeneration that has caused the American Cultural War. 

Neo-Marxist Ideology is notoriously characterized by:
1.  Contempt for Patriotism
2.  Contempt for Christianity
3.  Contempt for the Right to Bear Arms
4.  Contempt for the Right to Freedom of Speech
5.  Contempt for the Principle of Defensive Foreign War
6.  Contempt for Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection
7.  Contempt for the Sanctity of the Nuclear Family
8.  Contempt for the Sanctity of Human Life
9.  Contempt for the Humanitarian Sanctions by United Nations of the World
10.  Contempt for Traditional Republicans and Democrats

All of this contempt is transparently motivated by a dogmatic belief in gaining an advantage by self-serving insubordination to the practice of national religious and governmental traditions, which grant the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  These Neo-Marxists zealots, like their foolish Marxists predecessors, imagine that they will somehow create their new superior self-serving civilization, if they first destroy the traditional allegiance to the nuclear family, Christianity, nationalism, and the Constitution. 

Israel, which these Marxists refugees have had all to themselves to try out their incredible utopian social engineering ideas on their own little artificially created state, is notoriously poorly governed ; and the Israeli People, once the most widely pitied in the World, have come to justly earn the distinction of now being universally despised and condemned. 

In this 2008 presidential battle of the American Cultural War shall the Reagan Conservatives and the Kennedy Liberals finally combine forces against these desperately united Podhoretz Neo-Cons and Leiberman Neo-Libs; or shall they continue to suffer the increasing ideological subversion of their Republican and Democrat parties, the corruption of their traditional Christian and Constitutional culture, and the sacrifice of the wealth and blood of the American People to sole benefit of Israel?

Shall Neo-Con McCain have a date for the presidency, or a date for the Republican firing squad party; and, shall Neo-Lib Hillary have a date for the presidency, or a date for the Democrat witch burning party?

And the Vital National Interest served by the invasion of Myanmar would be what, precisely?

Out Here
Rodney G. Graves

Ceterum censeo Parthia esse delendam
Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destoyed”

Why are we not simply airdropping food and water to these people? Does anyone really think the Maxist Morons of Burma are actually going to shoot down planes dropping emergency aid supplies?

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

2H9

I have images of the turkeys falling from the helicopters on WKRP.

But, the question is a good one.

Time for this bunch of slimeballs to go away.

the AVATAR
Old Tigers are more dangerous when they believe this could be their last hunt.

From , “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”
Old tigers, sensing the end,
they’re at their most fierce. 
And they go down fighting.

I always envision the opening sequence from the movie Air America. 100lbs sacks of flour and rice freefalling through the tree canopy, crates with pigs and hardrice crashing to earth under 10 meter drogue chutes. Villagers looking up and crying"Help has arrived, run for your lives!!!”

With the projected weather of the next 4-9 days the window has shut. There will have to be aggressive relief efforts before the next wave, which appears to be a 4-6 day window.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

Anyone who thinks the Ueber-Left is all about Peace, Tolerance and Truth hasn’t been paying attention.  I have to second what many of you have already written.  Clinton is a fine example of how our military was used and abused by Leftist demagoguery:

Army deployments have tripled under Clinton to an average of 30,000 soldiers posted on six-month overseas missions in 80 countries, with the largest number in Bosnia. Air Force deployments have quintupled, and pilots of F16 fighters, A10 attack planes and U2 spy planes spent an average of 140 days abroad in 1997, most of them in the Persian Gulf. Half of the entire Navy is currently at sea, and only half based in port in the continental United States.

The five top officers complained that the far-flung deployment of American military forces was undermining the Pentagon’s current war-fighting doctrine, which calls for maintaining the ability to fight two major wars, on the scale of the Persian Gulf war, at the same time. In such an eventuality, they said, heavy casualties could be expected in the second war. A recent computer simulation resulted in an increase in the estimated risk of the second war from “moderate” to “high,” and a projected US casualty toll of 16,000 wounded and an undetermined number of dead.

There is no doubt that the US military is suffering from real strains, as the downsizing which followed the end of the Cold War comes into conflict with the increasing propensity of American imperialism to intervene militarily in strategic areas such as the Persian Gulf, the Balkans and the Far East.

The worst of it was, absent from the equation in deploying our fighting men and machines overseas was the positive answer to the question: is sending this American fighting man into harm’s way justified by a compelling national interest?

Under Leftists, the answer is almost always no.  They are willing to deploy troops for all the wrong reasons, yet squeal and whine when they are deployed for legitimate reasons. 

As some of you have already noted, their use of the military reflects their contempt for American national interests, for our military and the individual combat soldier.

...for great justice