4 Comments:

 Drake said...

generation x-nay:)
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5088

1:37 AM

 

 Redneck Texan said...

After reading up on their history Dody....No, I dont think this protest is going to succeed in removing the Military Junta.

They will do what REAL dictators do.....mow down the protestors in the street and burn villages to the ground to maintain control.

The only time in the last 3000 years this place has experienced anything that resembled peace and freedom was when the British provided it by granting them independence......they've never been able to achieve it on thier own.

And right now I dont see any external power coming in and altering the equation, the only way I think it could be, by physical force.

I certainly dont see any of its neighbors raising a finger to help the people there.

Neat country though.....beautiful geography and architecture..... but just too violent a culture for a self-sustaining indigenously produced Democracy.

I only hope Musharraf is taking notes. ;-)

7:09 AM

 

 Dody G. said...

We shall see what ASEAN does. They either grow some balls or hide in another lame non interference excuses (they should kick Burma out of ASEAN).

I think the jury is still out on this revolution thing. There's only so many protesters you can kill before the whole populace came down on you (and this is the second time after 1988). And some of those Generals might not want to be reborn as frogs in their next life.

8:34 PM

 

 Abs said...

And when the protests were being ruthlessly quelled, the Indian petroleum minister was in Burma signing oil & gas deals...

11:55 AM

 

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