tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162482350304935910.post2532328220211485969..comments2023-09-27T15:40:56.529+07:00Comments on Thailand Jumped the Shark: New York Times/BBC: Burmese RevolutionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162482350304935910.post-67935577428435826772007-09-30T02:36:00.000+07:002007-09-30T02:36:00.000+07:00I have no doubt now why you admire Thaksin for you...I have no doubt now why you admire Thaksin for you are so much like him. Even when the people in Burma are suffering and many people including monks are killed, you still play a role of an opportunist to pick on a newspaper. Your writing is so bad taste. You just use the Burmese victims to capitalize on your own benefit (of commenting on someone else). Is it really the best thing you can offer here?<BR/>After the election, if the Thai junta -who has stayed for over a year unlike the decades of Burmese Junta -steals democracy. I shall join you – mark my word.<BR/>But as for now, let me tell you that with the space you have, try to do something constructive. <BR/>The real issue now is to point the figure at influential nations like Russia, China, and India and criticize them.<BR/>Shame on you shark, I don’t think you have contributed anything good for the poor victims in Burma by writing this. Or it is just to please your master?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10682874627351049331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162482350304935910.post-35679927904552698582007-09-25T14:08:00.000+07:002007-09-25T14:08:00.000+07:00Despite the crocodile tears, it is obvious that no...Despite the crocodile tears, it is obvious that nobody in Thailand really wants Burma to improve. Democratization and openness would hurt Thailand in the short term. With the same natural resources but a more robust educational system, it's a matter of time until Burma surpasses Thailand technologically. Even now, I know Thai software companies which recruit from Burma to get the superior English skills.<BR/><BR/>(The next paragraph evolved into a rant--sorry!)<BR/><BR/>My personal fantasy as an American technologist is to see the rise of a new Southeast Asian nation led by someone genuine like Aung San Suu Kyi, who forms a Buddhist republic with actual rule of law and actual education, genuinely open to an inflow of foreign skill and investment for long-term benefit. I would jump ship in a heartbeat if something like that happened, and so would every expert here (Thai and foreign) who is frustrated by Thailand's permanent state of mediocrity. I came here to participate in the "Asian miracle," but this Buddhist theocracy (as Handley calls it) is obviously going nowhere.<BR/><BR/>Of course, this is wishful thinking, since even the most optimistic analyses on the protests use words like "uncertain future" and "possible violence." China and India have energy interests there. "Stability" (as opposed to improvement) is more important to the region.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751411273444768568noreply@blogger.com