Burma needs you.The slow burn of the Iraq conflict has done little to cool Washington elites' enthusiasm for intervention. After Cyclone cyclone, atmospheric pressure distribution in which there is a low central pressure relative to the surrounding pressure. The resulting pressure gradient, combined with the Coriolis effect, causes air to circulate about the core of lowest pressure in a Nargis struck Myanmar, killing at least 60,000, Robert D. Kaplan's first thought was, send in the Marines. By chance, "American armed forces are now gathered in large numbers in Thailand," he wrote in a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times op-ed, "one should not underestimate the advantage that fate has once again handed us." And the prospect of adding a manmade disaster to a natural one? Kaplan acknowledged that junta-ruled Myanmar's population of 47 million is divided into over a half-dozen mutually unfriendly ethnic groups--"the Chins, Kachins, Karennis, Karens, Shans and other hill tribes," plus the dominant Burmans--and the country "has suffered insurgencies for 60 years now." Still, Kaplan accentuated the positive side of intervention. There are worrying signs that John McCain For McCain's grandfather and father, see John S. McCain, Sr. and John S. McCain, Jr., respectively John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936 in Panama Canal Zone) is an American politician, war veteran, and currently the Republican Senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. takes daydreams like Kaplan's seriously. An insightful profile by Matt Bai in the New York Times Magazine suggested, "While most politicians looked at injustice in a foreign land and asked, 'Why intervene?' McCain seemed to look at that same injustice and ask himself, 'Why not?'" Myanmar, at least, still seemed a bridge too far to the man who would be commander in chief: "I'm just not sure the American people An American people may be:
A better foreign-policy vision comes from blogger Robert Stacy McCain Robert Stacy McCain (born 1959) is an assistant national editor for The Washington Times and co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of DONKEY CONS: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party. He lives in Maryland with his wife, Lou Ann, and their six children. , who is all for intervention--if we send the right people. "The Pentagon should deploy Robert D. Kaplan Robert D. Kaplan (born 1952) is an American journalist, currently an editor for the Atlantic Monthly. His writings have also been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, The National Interest, and to Burma immediately," he writes, "If necessary, we should send every think-tank wonk in Washington--pack 'em into C-130s and airdrop air·drop n. A delivery, as of supplies or troops, by parachute from aircraft. tr. & intr.v. air·dropped, air·drop·ping, air·drops To drop or be dropped from an aircraft. Noun 1. them on Burma. We ought to be willing to fight to the last 'senior analyst' over this Burma thing, and I look forward to watching the Beltway policy establishment flock to the Marine Corps recruiting stations ..." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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