From Spatium Trientis第三空间, I have seen the horrific devastation wrought upon Myammar, and the peoples of Myammar.
The country we used to know as Burma, and its capital, Yangon, has been struck by a cyclone of hugh proportion which damages are expected to exact a humanitarian toll replicating the ones seen four years ago in 2004 during Christmas when the Giant Tsunami struck Indonesia, and spread its natural power, sweeping up in its tidal waves across the Indian Ocean, and caused a human calamity of disastrous proportion in that region of the world, cutting a swath through Indonesia, Thailand, Sri-Lanka, and even the Maldives. Read the various media reports, by clicking on below:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/world/asia/07myanmar.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24478247
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121005930045270227.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news
To all of humanity out there, East and West: I plead for relief regardless of politics, ideologies, faiths, or all the culture and political "fissure" lines.
It is not the time to "politicize" and "demogogue" the issue, and inject politics into what is essentially a human catastrophe and calamity to which all peoples around the world, under the auspices of the United Nations, as global citizens, must respond and extend a hand.
When I see in the West, once again, the injection of politics, and the politization of the issue of Myammar, and the transgressions which many Western "human rights" advocates accuse the Yangon government and its officials of committing against its people, I again see demogoguery and politicization being done at the wrong time, at the wrong occasion, under the wrong circumstances.
Let's cut out that b.s. and focus on the humanitarian relief, with no preconditions.
When I hear Al Gore demagogueging it and grandstanding on this human disaster by claiming that "global warming" may have caused this natural diaster in Myammar, I get livid; "Here we go again,Al Gore claiming that he invented the Internet !. Click on his politicizing it once again, in the cause of the GREEN:
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080506160205.aspx
When do Westerners learn that sometimes it is best to stay quiet, work quietly, from behind the scene, and simply doing the right thing to extend a helping hand?
The problem with good ole Al Gore is that he "talks the talks" but does not "walk the walk" and "do the do" when it comes to Global Warming caused by his own opulent lifestyle including a humongous mansion, one of his many homes, a 10,000 sq. feet house four times the size of an average American home, where the Gores spend at least US$ 1,200 a month just for electricity, and utilities; and here he is talking about Global Warming, and reducing one's "carbon footprint" on earth:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/28/politics/main2522844.shtml
Cut out that Western hubris, dude !
This is not the time and the place to politicize a human calamity.
Those of us in the EAST did not demagogue it when New Orleans Katrina caused a major calamity within Louisiana, Mississipi, and the devastation Katrina wrought upon New Orleans and many of our African-American inhabitants of "The Big Easy."
Then, it was not the time to hector nor scream at the horrible relief efforts by FEMA, the U.S. agency charged with extending emergency relief.
I hope again, this time, Americans should not hector the Myammar government, regardless of its politics, about how Myammar and its people should and must do to extricate themselves from this natural calamity.
Not the right time to politicize and demogogue it. Just lend a helping hand. Period.
That's coming from a Chinese-American who knows that there is humanity in all of us, if we just simply set aside all the politics and hubris.
