IT’S NOT TIME TO DEBATE issues of sovereignty—it’s time to prevent a disaster from metastasizing. Call me naive, but I think we should be sending plane-load after plane-load of aid and aid workers into Burma, with or without the permission of the military junta.
We can go in under the UN’s “responsibility to protect” principle if legal cover is necessary. Or we could hold a press conference and say that the leadership in Burma has graciously decided to allow foreign assistance. How it’s done is not the not the important thing. The going is. The going now is.
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