The news from Myanmar Burma just keeps getting worse. As many as 100,000 may be dead, and the thugs who run the place are putting up all kinds of roadblocks for a world that wants to help:
But the U.S. ambassador to Bangkok said later the United States was still waiting for approval from Myanmar.
Kouchner suggested on Wednesday invoking a U.N. "responsibility to protect" to deliver aid without the junta's approval, but France's bid to make the Security Council take a stand was rebuffed.
The United Nations recognised the concept in 2005 to protect civilians when their governments could or would not do so, even if this meant intervention that violated national sovereignty.
Don't you sometimes wonder if we gave up too hastily on assassination as a foreign policy option?
