tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post2868040364294341319..comments2023-10-30T19:03:59.225+01:00Comments on David Seaton's News Links: The monks march up, the monks march down, the monks march around and around...David Seaton's Newslinkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269813419598042699noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-78777737147414268692007-09-26T23:30:00.000+02:002007-09-26T23:30:00.000+02:00Handelsblatt has a valid point. The dictators sit...Handelsblatt has a valid point. The dictators sit at the top of Burmese society, and by the time sanctions have even a marginal effect on their lives, the population will have been reduced to abject misery, well beyond what they endure even now. <BR/><BR/>The obvious solution is to lift trade sanctions and give the West a cut of the action, rather than letting the Chinese have it all, since nobody with power is going to do anything for the Burmese people in any event.<BR/><BR/>Of course, there is nothing mysterious about the fact that many parts of the world, rich in naturual resources, are cursed with the world's nastiest regimes. Democratic government has the unfortunate drawback that it must place the needs of the local population first, a thing which the rest of the world is prepared to tolerate in inverse proportion to the value of said resources.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-54220915116251654052007-09-26T09:49:00.000+02:002007-09-26T09:49:00.000+02:00And the bitter irony is, if they should 'win' they...And the bitter irony is, if they should 'win' they will only get raped by the much bigger beast of neo-fascist capitalism. The more things change the more they stay the same.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com