tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29051014.post5998905657107350459..comments2024-03-27T14:29:16.273+08:00Comments on nofearSingapore: Action from UN needed for Burma and Zimbabwe!nofearSingaporehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10292932144525733468noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29051014.post-27253206687018914442008-12-09T06:10:00.000+08:002008-12-09T06:10:00.000+08:00Hi Doc!You may have noticed that there have been c...Hi Doc!<BR/>You may have noticed that there have been calls lately from some leaders, especially Britain’s Gordon Brown and South Africa’s Desmond Tutu, for immediate action in Zimbabwe, even demanding that Mugabe be ousted. In typical fashion, nothing happened. Are they waiting for the cholera epidemic to spread to the neighboring countries? <BR/><BR/>I don’t wish to be fatalistic or negative, Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15964481724111188123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29051014.post-68356592611097490592008-12-08T10:14:00.000+08:002008-12-08T10:14:00.000+08:00Hi tony,Just watched depressing CNN feature by Chr...Hi tony,<BR/>Just watched depressing CNN feature by Christiane Amanpour "Scream Bloody Murder" about failure of world esply UN in preventing genocides:<BR/><BR/>1.Cambodia - Killing fields<BR/>2. Saddam’s murder of Kurds<BR/>3.Rwanda<BR/>4.Darfur (Sudan)<BR/>5. Sarajevo/Srebenica ( Bosnia)<BR/>Every state in the world is selfish ( or self-serving)- no one cares about the Kurds until Saddam nofearSingaporehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10292932144525733468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29051014.post-73267070257454988892008-12-05T06:33:00.000+08:002008-12-05T06:33:00.000+08:00Sorry, Doc, but you got me wrong! To tell you the ...Sorry, Doc, but you got me wrong! To tell you the truth, I’m actually a very optimistic person and enjoy life to the fullest, but I can’t help seeing what I see. I can’t close my eyes to reality, hoping that it will go away. It won’t. <BR/><BR/>I have a lot of faith in humanity, although it sometimes wavers. In spite of my apparent gloomy outlook, I feel that we are living in exciting times, and Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15964481724111188123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29051014.post-47977687778071988842008-12-04T21:24:00.000+08:002008-12-04T21:24:00.000+08:00Hi tony,You are an incorrigible pessimist!You are ...Hi tony,<BR/>You are an incorrigible pessimist!<BR/>You are making me lose faith in the human race!<BR/>Anyway, even if I am a mild pessimist, I still feel that Obama cannot possibly be a worse Pres than Bush!<BR/><BR/>Yes I must agree with you that my hope in the UN is indeed misplaced-<BR/><BR/>Yes Rwanda and DRCongo is tragic.<BR/> <BR/>Yes the UN was used by the USA to serve its own ends - nofearSingaporehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10292932144525733468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29051014.post-61973182129067849902008-12-04T18:39:00.000+08:002008-12-04T18:39:00.000+08:00I don’t know if the U.N. has the political or the ...I don’t know if the U.N. has the political or the economic will to do anything about these two hapless countries. Moreover, the U.N. is just a tool in the hands of the powers that be and helping out Burma and Zimbabwe might not be in their best interests. Otherwise they would have acted long ago. After all, these rogue regimes are not the isolated tyrannies they appear to be but, I suspect, Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15964481724111188123noreply@blogger.com