The World vs Burma
12th May 2008
Consider this tough talk from UN chief Ban Ki-moon: “I want to register my deep concern and immense frustration on the unacceptably slow response to this grave humanitarian crisis.” The problem is, something is only unacceptable if it’s not accepted. So, eleven days into the unacceptable, we’re still pretending that the UN is going to get around to caring about corpses that can’t be linked to the American military or the Israeli Defense Force.
May 13th, 2008 at 13:51
Why are these people surprised? A military dictatorship is behaving like a military dictatorship, and both the UN and the MSM are shocked. What else did they expect?