So, the powers that be in Myanmar have decided they don't want the help of the U.N. or anyone else, and they're going to hoard the food supplies for themselves rather than take care of their own people. Why am I not surprised by this?

I know we complain about our governmental leaders here in the United States, and that its response to the hurricanes in Katrina were inept and insufficient, but help did finally arrive, volunteers from all across our country went down there to help, and, though slowly, New Orleans is on its way back to a semblance of normalcy.

In Myanmar, they're talking over 100,000 killed, which is probably a low number, and the military government is more interested in their own well being than the well being of its people. I'm not surprised because that's what terrorists do. I look at what's going on in Beirut right now, the equivalent of a coup over a legally elected government, and the terrorism that's occurring in both Iraq and Afghanistan. If the terrorists were only going after troops I wouldn't like it but I'd understand it. But they're going after those who are supposedly their own, people who don't see it coming, some who might even support the terrorists, because, in their minds, it's more about the body count than who's actually been taken out.

So, Myanmar, which had barely been a blip on the radar of most of us, is now on the map full strength, and we get to shift our revulsion towards someone else for a few minutes. We know how this one will play out; we've seen it before. Stupid government corruption; even this doesn't change in the face of poverty or natural disasters. Makes me think more about this post.