The military junta ruling Burma is the most evil entity on the planet. We hear the term “evil” tossed around a good bit these days. Then there is that certifiable moron on MSNBC who hosts the “Worst Person in the World” segment on his show every night, seemingly thinking that only conservatives qualify as bad people. How Bill O’Reilly is worse than Kyin Nyunt is something only the most neurologically deficient can fathom. Somebody needs to take a potassium supplement.

For those who think sua sponte military invention is inherently a bad thing, perhaps the relief effort in Burma deserved just that sort of response. The supplies were there. The need was there. The only thing standing between some of the most destitute individuals on the planet and survival were the four hardly working helicopters of a morally bankrupt and illegitimate military government. One aerial raid would have enabled the survival of thousands. In the interim, a government that has a vested interest in killing a sizeable portion of its population has continued to kill a sizeable portion of its population, through systematic neglect and theft.

For very little cost, the United States military (and the former countries of SEATO, to include Australia - oh, for John Howard!) could easily have diverted a humanitarian crisis of near-biblical proportions, and weakened one of the most horrific regimes on the planet. If there was a time for justifying the most minor of military interventions, the tsunami that devastated Burma is it.