Myanmar

Every time I check the wires, the death count in Myanmar has skyrocketed past another set of zeros. Frankly, I do not see how the junta can be considered legitimate after this tragedy. Rangoon has become another Mogadishu circa 1993.

For those too young to remember, a warlord named M. F. Aidid forced a genocide on his own people. In addition to being the capital, Mogadishu was also Somalia's primary port. Aidid seized UN and foreign food shipments.

500 THOUSAND dead and counting. There is only so much a people can take. The fuse is burning short in the last bastions of illegitimate rule. What it will take for the Burmese to revolt, time will tell us.