Ignore them, with guns if necessary

The AP has an article about Burma; seems even our State Department gets it that the Burmese can't, and don't want to, cope with the disaster: "Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Scot Marciel told lawmakers that the generals running Myanmar, also known as Burma, cannot manage the distribution of aid needed to help people facing disease, malnutrition, and exposure to the elements... "Let me be clear: if assistance is not allowed in, and thousands of Burmese perish, the responsibility for this catastrophe will fall squarely on the shoulders of Senior General Than Shwe," the head of the country's ruling junta, and other leaders, Marciel said in testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia. "Every day that goes by and more people suffer, increasingly the blame falls on the government"... U.S. officials have complained that skilled aid workers are being forced to sit on the sidelines, waiting for permission from the government to enter, as victims of the cyclone die."

Rico says he wonders when are they going to get it that we can't wait for politeness and diplomacy? Go in, guns blazing if necessary, get the food and water to these people, and screw the diplomatic niceties...