Burma and the UN

Burma has been in the news recently with the wake of Cyclone Nargis and the junta’s reluctance to admit foreign aid to the country’s suffering citizens. On The Weekly Standard’s website, Joseph Loconte points out the ways in which the UN has done nothing to fight the tyranny of the Burmese government.

For a more theological take on the question of natural disasters in Burma, see David B. Hart’s piece on our homepage .

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