The typhoon tragedy in Burma is just another example of how the United Nation has failed the world. Add it to the tragedy in Darfur and the fiasco of Iraq after Desert Storm. If the United Nations had forced Saddam Hussein to adhere to the resolutions imposed on him, there would have been no need for an invasion. And the holocaust in Darfur under military thugs is quite obvious a U.N. failure as you hinted at in your column of May 19, 2008, which appeared in our local daily.
The miitary thugs in Burma deserve to be tried for crimes against humanity, against their own people. I just hope that columnists such as you will push that issue. I have little faith that the U.N. will do so.