If they won't accept aid from the US, let them eat cake.

For whom is this editorial intended? Is there any dispute among Utahns about what the Myanmar government should do? Do the editors really think the Myanmar government reads the Deseret News? What's next, an editorial about how the Taliban should lay down their weapons and be nice?

It is very tragic that at a very desperate time Myanmar's government is reticent to accept aid. It's times like these where political barriers should be removed. That being said, has it occurred to anyone that the reason Myanmar's government is so hesitant to allow the US in has nothing to do with their "fear" or "resentment" of Western culture?

I submit they may be more fearful that if they let the US in we will never leave. We already have military bases in about 130 countries and it seems once we enter a country we keep troops there indefinitely. While it is usually a military reason we go in and never leave, maybe it doesn't look that way from the outside.

I still place the blame of added suffering in Myanmar on its government for not accepting aid when it is so urgently needed. However, I think it's also a good time for us to examine what our incessant interventionalist foreign policy is doing to create fear in other countries. I don't blame them in some respects for not wanting us to come in to begin with.