Musings on a Rainy Afternoon
From Myanmar to Celebrity-Gods

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
May 20, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/296/musings-on-a-rainy-afternoon-myanmar-celebrity

Excerpt:

Lately, the days are all raw and rainy. This is strange weather for May in Manhattan but who dares to complain? At least we are not enduring earthquakes, typhoons, hurricanes, tsunamis, or forest fires.

I cannot imagine the suffering of those in Myanmar who have just lost their loved ones, their homes, and their health– to the weather. May God have mercy upon them. Thus far, humanity has not risen to the occasion. The same United Nations that would not "intervene" to save the victims in Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Congo, or Darfur are not saving those condemned to death, not by an earthquake, but by their own leaders in Myanmar.

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