Also:

Gates called the actions of the Myanmar criminal.

He is right.

By not allowing in foreign aid, even that of such White Devils like ourselves, their people are being exposed to disease and starvation.

We can't just invade, and the U.N. can't invoke their own rights without provoking an international incident.

That would be bad.

Myanmar is allied with China, who is hosting the Olympics. The only reason we are hearing and seeing so much about the Quake is because they are under enormous scrutiny now as the hosts of this year's summer Olympics. Nepal, Tianammen Square, and all those dissenters they would otherwise lock up, and all those North Koreans sneaking over the border to avoid starvation are being turned, however reluctantly, into PR events to make China look better.

If we piss off one, we piss off the other. If we piss off the Big Panda, we piss off the Angry White Potato aka Russia. I mean, President...oops, Prime Minister Putin isn't someone I would really want as my enemy. He gasses people to death. And not just his enemies. The children of his allies. His own people.

So you see, really easily you could force the issue and start a global incident over a tiny little country with a huge laundry list of human rights violations. Would you really want to start a global incident over a teensy tiny thing like that?

I mean, there isn't even any OIL over there!