Reading the horrific stories from Burma this last week, I’m completely shocked at the world’s deference to the power-mad dictatorship that rules over this people.
A thousand years ago Christians from western Europe went to Jerusalem on an armed pilgrimage. If any non-Christian military forces stood in their way, which, by happenstance, they did, then it was a good thing the Christians brought along their weapons.
I can’t help but think that the appropriate response is for the West to organize an armed humanitarian mission. If those worthless no-goodniks in the Burmese government wish to oppose us handing out food and medical care, then it will be a good thing that our relief forces took with them companies of Marines, SAS, KSK, and Foreign Legionnaires.
Of course, I speak of a West long past, a West that was confident of its moral superiority and military prowess. That West, I fear, died in the trenches of western France in 1915. Tens of thousands of Burmese will die because that West no longer exists.
Apollo posted this at 12:15 AM EDT on Saturday, May 10th, 2008 as I bid you stand: Men of the West