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Originally Posted by J.Locke777
Well, there are planes waiting on the runway in Thailand loaded with food, medicine, doctors and nurces, and other forms of aid. As soon as they get the "green light" they are going to be taken to Burma to help relive the citizens of their agony.
However, there was another time in the history of the world when boarders were freshly closed along east and west Berlin. Dispite the protests of the Soviet Union, the US for 8 months, carried out a series of humanitarian missions called the Berlin Airlifts, providing the people of East Berlin with Food and other general healthcare items.
My point is, screw the pretencious dictator, he's not a threat to world peace. Send in Humanitarian airlifts of Food and Medicine. Basic things that could save lives. When it comes down to it, saving human lives trumps politics 4 times out of 5.
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With all due respect I really don't think that such a comparison can be justified. In Berlin a city should be only hungered out, not starved to death. The communists thought that the western allies would give in before.
How many died in Berlin during that Luftbrücke, and how many died in Myanmar due to a natural disaster and it's aftermath?