hello kettle, it's the pot calling ...

today, in a blatant display of hypocrisy, our ambassador to the united nations, zalmay khalilzad, decided to call out the junta in burma/myanmar for their response to the recent disaster. he said "he was outraged by the slowness of the response" to the disaster by the government of burma/myanmar. are you kidding me! could it be that a representative of this administration would have the audacity to criticize another government for the pace of their response to a natural disaster?! my, what short memories they must have. as i remember, it was only three short years ago that, in the immediate aftermath of one of the worst natural and human rights disasters ever to hit the shores of the united states, our leader and his representatives took no decisive action. instead, the head of FEMA asked if he could go home (but, only after verifying that he looked good on television), and his boss talked about illegal immigration, and HIS boss played the guitar and waxed poetic on the day that the million dollar home of a public official would be rebuilt (while the common folk wallowed in the inhumane conditions of the superdome, mind you).

obviously, it would be best if the junta allowed relief efforts to begin (it has been five days since the cyclone hit), but something tells me that a sanctimonious scolding is not the most effective way to encourage the junta to act.