Now it's Burma's turn

Since Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma, missed out on the whole tsunami thing, apparently they decided they needed their own natural disaster, so they asked for and got a cyclone. (We call them hurricanes in this hemisphere.) One hell of a cyclone, apparently; the death toll has jumped from a reported 351 to the revised official tally of "over 15,000", with 30,000 still missing.
The government, however, is reluctant to accept foreign aid because that means foreign aid workers and that means bad publicity for the retrograde political situation in Burma. Worse yet, President Bush is going to sign a bill today that will award the Congressional Gold Medal to imprisoned Burmese political activist Aung San Suu Kyi, a move sure to piss off the government.

Rico says if only the Burmese weren't such nice people and we could just leave them all to die from the aftereffects of the cyclone, it would be a lot easier...