Poet's Eye Extra
Crying Time
10-01-07
The Poet's Eye has a tear today. According to The London Daily Mail, Thousands of the Burmese Buddhist monks who so courageously stood up to the military junta by leading demonstrations for the past several weeks, have been kidnapped and executed.
If ever there has been a situation where the use of our high-powered strike-force military would be appropriate, it is this one.
Yesterday I watched some episodes of Ken Burns' documentary on WWII. It is a good thing to celebrate. WWII was the last time that our military muscle was used for legitimate purposes. It was the last time we were really the good guys.
But we should be the good guys in Burma.
We would like to think that moral authority and the cause of right will inevitably triumph. But sometimes a rifle helps and the monks in Burma were not concealing AK-47s under their saffron robes. They are dead now.
If the neo-cons who run our military really want to play John Wayne and save the world for freedom, then here is their chance. Invade Burma. Hey, there's even oil there.
(and then there is this:
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