Llove Letters

“You have to think it through — do you want to secure an area of the country by military force? What kinds of potential security risks would that create?” says Jan Egeland, the former U.N. emergency relief coordinator. “I can’t imagine any humanitarian organization wanting to shoot their way in with food.” This quote from a CNN news source points up a real sticky problem. Here’s the gist: The disaster in Burma presents the world with perhaps its most serious humanitarian crisis since the 2004 Asian tsunami. By most reliable estimates, close to 100,000 people are dead. Delays in delivering relief to the victims, the inaccessibility of the stricken areas…