The Maverick Tribe

As tensions escalate in this forgotten country, I can't not take a minute to voice my support for the grassroots uprising against the military junta in Burma.  Props to President Bush for underlining his support for democracy in this little backwater nation in his speech to the UN.  Leavening democracy in Burma and exerting greater international pressure on their current brutal regime (as well as their low-key supporter, China) would have been a much more manageable project than our disastrous mission in Iraq.

Those of us who warned - before the invasion of Iraq - that it may not ready for democracy were called racists by some of the wars supporters.

Well, anyway.

We were right, Iraq was not ready for Jeffersonian democracy, but in Burma we find a country that is.

What can you do?  Sign an online petition here.