Burma's nuclear mystery‏

["Mad" Miles]

Burma's nuclear mystery‏


Roland Watson makes the Canadian press. Note the periodicals' politics. Not my cup of tea. But I've found the Burman Freedom movement to be one of the places where the Left and Right peacefully coexist and even cooperate!

[Tars]

It would only be a surprise really, if the military regime in Burma (the gov't there wants to be called Myanmar) didn't have lust for nukes. Militaristic regimes seem to be paranoid and xenophobic; they want to have the meanest baddest weapons. In Burma' case, they have a few neighbors who are already nuclear armed. Some of these neighbors haven't been the most stable, especially in recent decades.

This is why the international community is trying to get Iran to stop its nuke-building ambitions, and accept foreign-produced nuclear fuel. There is a domino effect. If one flaky regime gets its hooks on any more-powerful weapon than their neighbors, all the other regional countries feel compelled to do the same.

Not sure why Secretary Clinton or others in the Obama administration haven't made public statements. Perhaps they feel something constructive can be done more easily if the situation isn't being scrutinized and opionated all over by the media. But it would be very surprising if there isn't some sort of back-channel political action being addressed to Burma.