Sit back and enjoy the carnage

Dear Gordon Brown,

In all fairness this letter may be addressed to you but it is intended for the entire international community.  You, like many other leaders, were quick to condemn the actions of the military junta in Burma for their brutal crackdown against the unarmed protestors, many of them monks, and the United Nations have now sent a Special Envoy to try and bring the situation to a close.

So now, it seems, your work is done.  You complain a lot, stomp your feet, get the UN to send someone to Burma, and your work is done.  How very noble of you.  Perhaps this will serve as a little reminder of what you have abandoned:

 

The reports of hundreds, possibly thousands, of monks being tortured, murdered and burned alive doesn’t seem to have registered in your brain.  The possibility of refugees flooding Thailand has also left you unmoved.  I’m not sure whether you honestly think the UN Envoy has any chance of success (which he doesn’t) or whether you are just happy pretending that you care (when you don’t).  The military regime is locking monks inside something akin to concentration camps, dumping dead bodies in the jungle, and you seem ok with that - as does President Bush and the rest of your once-vocal crowd.  It is sickening to watch how quickly you absolve yourself of responsibility for what happened in Burma. 

Iraq was invaded on the basis of fabricated evidence and yet you have the crisis in Burma being played out on your TV screen and do nothing.  I don’t know how you get to sleep at night, I really don’t.

Yours in contempt,

A.Tory