Yes, I can just imagine our Armed Forces with obsolete military hardware like 20 year old Belgium and French armored personnel carriers, Russian supplied second hand malfunctioning AK47s and second hand US supplied M16s, cannons and obsolete and malfunctioning aircraft purchased from Pakistan Air Force and ill trained soldiers and pilots and half-completed French submarines making their way to Myanmar – only to be stopped by a defying monk lying prostrate in their path!

It would be cheaper to unleash the ‘little red dragons’ to the generals. That should keep them occupied for a while.

As I can see, there is no particular reason why the Generals will want to make any concessions on the country. They are firmly in charge and know full well that external pressure are at most perfunctory and just irirtating. They are in the most previlege position and nobody can do anything about it. Those who can will not although those who can’t want to. Nobody is going to fight the war for a democratic Burma except the Burmist themselves.

Having a government in exile preparing for an overpowering army with the assistance of the world with the latest and best hardware in warfare is the only way out. The Generals will have no alternative but to stand down when surrounded by hundreds of thousands of well trained troops from the army in exile. Power comes from the barrel of the gun. Overwhelming superiority is the only option that can avoid bloodshed because to resist is to be annihilated. When the Gangsters Generals get the idea they will again shit their guts out begging for mercy and return the country to Ang SSY.

One thing ASEAN can do, is to take a carrot & stick approach.

The carrot would be to offer safe haven for the Burmese military dictatorship (in otherwords, a life of exile), if they were to step down, and let a civilan government take over in its place. This may be palatable to ASEAN, given that they are so reluctant to act otherwise.

The stick would be to take military action, if they fail to give up power. Increasingly, this looks to be the only recourse. And it is better that ASEAN do it, rather than anyone else.

Secondly, let’s forget about KJ and the other BN goons. It is so obvious that he’s just in it for the cheap publicity. Sickens me to the bone so less mentions of him would do my health a lot more.

Thirdly, let’s forget about ASEAN or any external countries making any impact on Myanmar. Not even superpower USA or neighboring China. Changes have to come from the local population themselves. You may say that the military junta has arms and weapons but how many can you kill before the ordinary soldiers themselves revolt against the generals ? I am sorry but there may need to be a lot more bloodbath before the military junta can toppled by people power in Myanmar. They should have done earlier before the military junta managed to create such a stranglehold on the country. Now, the only possible way out would a path similar to how the Cambodians removed the Khmer Rouge regime.

Sad but this is how I foresee things will happen. I pray I would be proven wrong.

There is indiscriminate killings in Burma and here you are ranting about KJ. It was a public protest, cant the lad go and show his support to the Burmese people??

It is very sad to see gimps taking advantage of the Burma’s situation to attack certain political leaders they are not affiliated with.

What is most sad and pathetic about ASEAN countries is their inability to see what an opportunity a pro-active solution in Myanmar as being suggested by Sdr. Lim here can be. If the Junta is not forced into democractic changes this time, they are likely not to change for decades to come and worst is yet to come. This is the best opportunity to force changes in a long time in Myanmar.

ASEAN refusal to intervene is founded on one thing – their own fear of democractic movement in their own countries. Their reliance and need for autocratic rule. If ASEAN countries proactive take action, it will provide a basis for criticism of their own undemocratic practises.

But what these ASEAN existing ruling party don’t see is that if they fail to act and if the monks, with help from other parties, succeed in making democratic changes in Myanmar, they themselves lose legitimacy in the eye of their own citizens.

For that, all Malaysians and Asian should do whatever it can to help the Myanmar people. I am all for Sdr. Lim leading an ASEAN delegation, make up of any group, political, ngos to convey ASEAN people demand that junta implement democratic reform.

If they can’t do the job, plead for the US to come in to do the dirty work.

Congress threatens that should anything happen to Aung San Suu Kyi who has been taken from house arrest to prison, appropriate actions will be taken against the gangsters responsible anywhere in the world they could be found.

U.S. Congress condemns the role played by China which provided more than a billion USDLS in military hardware.

In the same breath, the U.S. Congress expressed its disappointment that nothing has been done by ASEAN to stop what was happening in Burma.

Strange that suicide bombing has not caught on in Mynamar. Just see how the muslim do it to the Thai army in sourthern Thailand. I am sure the Thai army is as formidable as the Mynamar army. If southern Thailand independent fighters have as much of support from the people as Mynamar has, it would have long attained its own sovernity.

If Burma is islamic instead of Buddhist, I am pretty sure Osama and gang would have screwed the Generals by now. This is the first and only time I wish Myanmar is Islamic. They can then get a free supply of suicide bombers to bomb the shit out of the armies there. To the Burmist citizen who read this I strongly recommend that they learn a thing or two from their muslim friends as to how the start a revolution! People power in Burma does not work. You need guns and plenty of it. What is the point of marching on the streets and face the inevitable-get slaughtered. If you have to die anyway may as well pull along a few of those army bastards with you.

Our Nuri helicopters will probably crash there and our naval vessels are not sea-worthy.

Even they get there in one piece, enemy fire will probably decimate the rest.

The recent ‘leak’ in the media that elections may be held as late as 2009 could be a ruse. The elections could be held in less than six weeks time – while some say it could be on 25 November 2007, three weeks after the Umno General Assembly which ends on 9 November.

The more time passes, the more unstable the Government becomes. The Ministers are incapable of functioning well or of moving the country forward. Almost all the mega-projects announced by the Prime Minister are not moving at all. It is a fact that none of them have even started. The Penang Bridge has not started, the East-West Gas Pipeline has stalled, the IDR has not started, the Eastern Corridor and Northern Corridor have also not started.

The Prime Minister has postponed Vision 2020 by another 50 years to 2057. Therefore the PGCC project in Penang is also scheduled for completion by 2027. This means that the country is not going to move forward. They have no clue how to get the economy going.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn’t a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

-A poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller