U.S. Military Intervention In Burma?

[Tars]

The current catastrophe in Burma (aka Myanmar) is a situation which would be a great opportunity to start establishing a new direction for U.S. military intervention. Not the archaic style of intervention, where a U.S. "cowboy" prez sends troops in, topples the local gov't, and then goes about establishing U.S. corporate hegemony.

Instead a U.S. military intervention should take the form of the Berlin airlift. Currently, an illegal Burmese gov't is keeping humanitarian supplies from its own citizens, who are dying by the thousands for the lack. A truly courageous U.S. Prez would push through a delivery system of humanitarian supplies, delivered by airdrop and/or temporary airfields in Burma. The Myanmar dictator would be informed that any attempt to interrupt the airlift would be dealt with harshly in short order. There would also be an accompanying offer to work with and support the myanmar military if it so chose to take over the deliveries. The U.S. would set up no bases in the country, and would use military force only in direct accompaniment to supplies delivery. No "mission creep" allowed. As soon as the local gov't showed that it was dealing with the situation, the U.S. forces would be gone.

[scorpiomoon]

A sad state of affairs... Will enough humanitarian aid get through? Military intervention should never be an option but surely we have the technology, if we really really wanted to do this, to drop supplies in, directly with no military or outside presence whatsoever. Make no mistake about it. With satellite imaging accurate drops can be made & screw the Burmese govt.!!! help the people. Get Yoko Ono or Maybe some surfers to paddle the stuff in, hell!!! (I exaggerate of course) It would take one innovative beaurocrat to figure this one out. Unfortunately, this is an oxymoron, innovative beaurocrat, & in the meantime sad, so prayers I rarely ask for, but these beautiful people do need relief. Not Katrina relief the real thing.