Thanks, Old Kok, for the Geography lesson. I learned mine long ago, and for years I thought China was across some damned bay from Mandalay. Never could find it on the map. I must have been misinformed. Sorry. Nevertheless, if I shoot a midrange missile from the Malaccan coast of Malaysia (you know the part that used to be M_____ ) I can hit Rangoon, or Boomslang (or what what the hell they call it now, and the more I think of it, the better it sounds. At any rate, I'd almost be guaranteed to hit some goon or other. I don't generally endorse the names temporary dictators impose on their subjects. I called it Russia for years, and Serbia, and Czech republic. I called it Cambodia (or Cambodge) I called it Scotland. I called it New Guinea (or Nu Gini).
I'll call it Burma and stay out of it until Laureate Aun San Suu Kyi, that wonderful woman, gains the power her people have chosen her for. |
