Reply #31: When have we ever invaded to stop oppression and murder? [View All]

[pampango]

Certainly not in Cambodia (the Vietnamese eventually did invade and clean up the mess there. I wonder if Thailand, Burma's neighbor, has a military sufficient to help the Burmese people.); didn't happen in Rwanda; obviously Iraq wasn't invaded because of oppression and murder; Hungary in '56; Czechoslovakia in '68; Yugoslavia - well we did get NATO to conduct bombing to eventually stop genocide; Somalia - we know how that worked out; Darfur has been going on for many years.

One thing is that the Burmese military, though fairly large at 400,000, has only fought monks and civilians for the past 40 years, so I doubt they would put up much actual resistance.