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sorting out myanmaar
by Pradip Parekh on Oct 03, 2007 01:32 AM

different players have different interests. first off usa (ie the bush administration) lacks credibility hugely. usa loves dictators and rogue regimes around the world as long as they do usa's bidding. saudi arabia and pakistan dictators are ready examples. myanmar has done no wrong to usa. so, what's driving usa into this? simple. usa wants to checkmate china which is expanding its access to all seas and oceans - here usa's and india's interest mesh well. second, the wall street journal has already reported that the one of the prominent forces in usa behind this move are the evangelists who want to proslytize burma just like they have doing it in india and sri lanka and nepal - here india's and usa's interests don't mesh. the evangelists know that they can't touch muslim countries or israel, and hence they focus on hindu and buddhist countries. china, to its enormous credit, have kept the missionaires out with a swift kick on their rear, and burma is similarly inclined too. that "democratic leader" of burma, that lady with a very long neck, is a xtian - so you know. pushing democracy in the eastern countries is merely a tool for needling by the west. the west has a super allergy to swastika but pushes the cross in east.

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