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To that I say, worse than what? War is pretty bad as it is. If the war in Burma seems a little one sided that is because it is one sided. There are groups that spend good amounts of money to visit the refugees in their camps and deliver aid. This is a good and wonderful thing to do, with out a doubt. However, just think if that amount money was used to put the Karen people back into their homes and out of the camps.

This is possible…. There are a great number of tactics that the KNLA could use that would ensure victory in a resonably short amount of time. The KNLA needs the people to train them and they need the right equipment. The KNLA are great fighters and they know how to fight a guerilla war on a shoestring budget. Increase their budget, training, and technology and you will see a rapid shift in the way things are going.

I am telling you, all of you intellectuals out there, there is a way to win this war. I know the way. It will not be easy. We just need to commit to not give up.

Anything that complicates a war where nationalism is at stake will prolong it. Having American nationals involved in the KNLA can only serve to be used as propaganda by the Junta, and consequently foster mistrust and bad communication. A speedy resolution to the conflict will obviously see both parties agreeing on what they can agree on, so perhaps your questions point to another: how long will it be before the Junta will agree to forget their xenophobic, paranoid fascism?

Maybe a similar question can be asked of Sylvester Stallone..? The Burmese junta uses French mercenaries to guard the Total pipelines. They also use Chinese military advisors. The Israelis provide instructors to the Burmese secret police and intelligence agencies. Andrew Selth uses his position as a movie reviewer to argue that the small number of western ex-military people assisting the Karens is what is prolonging the war.

I would retort that what is prolonging the war are the Israelis, French mercenaries, Chinese advisors, Indian arms dealers and Washington lobbyists who assist in propping up the Burmese junta. If all of these people exited the scene — not likely — then the SPDC would collapse in short order. Perhaps they need to get out of the classroom more often, and out into the real world.

Charles I love the smell of napalm in the morning F, academics with all their ideas and neurosis, shape the real world you live in. You wonder why academics favour appeasement and accommodation with evil? Is your real world full of Steven Segal action figures? What is evil exactly? I bet somewhere along the line an academic would have argued your real evil for you! Better look them up!! MMMMmm the smell of that fire is better than breakfast! I think some people have their heads shoved up their backsides when they comment that films like Rambo 4 and foreign military assistance to the KNLA help prolonge the internal repression in Burma.

I am sorry for the strong language, but it makes me physically sick when I hear comments like this. I have seen enough dead people for real to haunt me for the rest of my life, especially in Burma.

Maybe people have been misquoted regarding the prolonging of the conflict in this manner. But when I hear that I know they are either academics, who live in another world, or complete nut cases.

The military leaders and their troops, on a whole, see themselves as the saviours of the nation, they believe in what they are doing, that is the irony of the whole situation. The military opens the way for social and political advancement and gives many soldiers and their families access to education, rations, medical attention, housing and safety. It also gives people a job. The junta view themselves as the returning Burman kings. They will never bring peace to the country. AND, Burma was never a united country in the first place.

The British drew the present map of Burma, as they did in the Middle East, and look what is happening there now. I would dearly love peace to come to Burma, for everybody there.

David Everett, My email address appears below. I would like to have an offline discussion with you if at all possible. Charles Foster [email protected].

David, thanks for your post. I would really like to know if you have seen the Junta use foreigners fighting with liberation groups as propaganda. Yes, of course it is the Junta who prolongs everything — all I am trying to do is see how the Junta prolongs it. Yet other nations should treat this issue with extreme caution, for if there is one approach that would unite the peoples of Myanmar in a close authoritarian bond and justify this continuation of the garrison state it would be the threat or perceived threat of physical foreign intervention into Burmese affairs.

There is always the danger, as we have seen in typical garrison state situations, that a regime may invoke, erroneously believe, or create the impression of external threats justifying continuity of power and repression in the interests of the national security—foreign powers aligning with minorities or opposition elements. This has happened in the past in Myanmar, and care should be taken by those abroad that no impetus be given for its resuscitation.

For what it is worth, I have spoken to some folks who have assisted and helped train KNLA forces over the years who have seen the recent Rambo film. All agreed that as cinema, the movie, to be polite to Mr Stallone, was lacking. But as to the depiction of the violence, contrary to what Mr.

McCartan states in his review, the only exaggeration they noted was the depiction of the use of a flame thrower. Despite the rather poor cinematic reviews of the film, my local activists with the US Campaign for Burma were quite pleased to get this exposure for the situation in Burma.

Most Americans have absolutely no clue about the human rights abuses perpetrated by the Burmese government, so the release of the movie was seen as a very positive event.

So now I too might finally be only six degrees from Kevin Bacon. Hi Grasshopper, I appreciate what you are saying mate, but foreign assistance with the ethnic minorities is miniscule. I am all for appeasement, like Nevil Chamberlin was, but people die when good men do nothing.

It was only because the French and poms went to war with Germany, that the nazi war machine was brought to its knees. I have watched the suffering of the Burmese people since and the military will not change. I have heard all this crap before. Go and swap places with Aung San Suu Kyi or any of the political prisoners locked in Insein prison them come back on here and talk appeasement. Sorry, I am getting a bit emotional here as I have seen what they do.

Wish they could all take a happy pill and the world would be a sweeter place. As I say and have said before, get into the real world. I have done the academic side of things as well as the rough side of life, believe me, you are wasting your time and civilian lives by your appeasement to the junta, they laugh at people like you.

It enforces their belief in the stupidity of foreigners. Check out my website if you want to see my academic background. I suggest you catch a plane to Rangoon, get an appointment with the generals and tell them what bad boys they have been. Stand them in the naughty corner and all will be apples and oranges.

I am sorry if I am being a bit harsh, as I said before, I just get ill with all these talk fests by foreign governments, because that is all they are. I wish I had the answer, but I do believe everybody has the right to fight for their freedoms if their lives and family are threatened. Hey, remember when Rambo helped those brave Afgani mujahideen fight off the Soviets? Boy, those Islamic freedom fighters were so grateful to Rambo and the U.

Remember how the example Rambo set inspired the mujahideen to establish a new Afganistan based on democratic values and free enterprise? A paradise on Earth those two created! The […]. Here are some facts that can add some more substance to all of the Mandala discussions. We deserve better, and so does John Rambo. We get it: you like to have control of your own internet experience. But advertising revenue helps support our journalism. To read our full stories, please turn off your ad blocker.

We'd really appreciate it. Click the AdBlock button on your browser and select Don't run on pages on this domain. Sylvester Stallone in Rambo: Last Blood. In First Blood he did not employ a bow. This is the first Rambo film without a companion novel by David Morrell, Rambo's creator.

Boars are known for their aggressive temperament. One of the boars on set got loose during filming and it took seven men to corral it. The name 'Rambo' is mentioned only twice in the whole film, namely when Rambo is awoken by pastor Arthur Marsh and in the nightmare scene. In an unprecedented move, Europe's biggest cinema chain and the third biggest in the world , Odeon, controversially refused to show the film on any of its screens in the United Kingdom, blaming "commercial differences".

UCI followed suit in its cinemas in Ireland which were managed by Odeon. The film was not shown in the French-speaking part of Switzerland due to legal and commercial problems with the distributor, even if it was available on screens of France and the Swiss German-speaking part. Both were produced by renowned fantasy knife-smith, Gil Hibben. Throughout the movie, Rambo is wearing similar clothes to what he wore in the opening scene of First Blood Plans for a fourth Rambo film started while the third film was still in production.

According to interviews with Sylvester Stallone and some articles in the action movie magazine Impact from between and , he wrote the script titled Rambo 4: The Black Forest in which Rambo was working with Greenpeace fighting what Stallone said were "nature criminals". Another rejected Rambo 4 script from the early 90's which Stallone wrote was mentioned by him in an interview for Starlog in November of Around that time he was working on a new script which had Rambo returning to his home town and meeting his brother who is a town sheriff, but then Rambo gets kicked out because everyone in the town knows about everything he did in Vietnam and the previous three films.

However Rambo returns once some escaped criminals his brother put in jail escape to kill him, and the entire film would take place during a large hurricane. Some of the other rejected scripts for the fourth film written during the twenty years after the third film and before finally the fourth one did get made had Rambo fighting against right wing militia, a white supremacy group, terrorists, international drug dealers, meth dealers, biker gangs, and cartels, human traffickers and sex slavers, the same type of villains he would battle in the fifth film, Rambo: Last Blood With the exception of Schoolboy, none of the other mercenaries actually use the same rifles they deployed with.

The first film in the Rambo series not to star Richard Crenna as the actor died five years before the film's release. He appears as Col. Trautman only in flashbacks. It is assumed that the character had passed away sometime between Rambo III and this film. Odeon, a UK cinema chain with more than screens, refused to show the film for 'commercial reasons'.

When Rambo left home, his parting gift to his father was to shoot him with an arrow, after which he joined the Army. Fortunately this did not become part of the films' canon, or Rambo's homecoming would be even more awkward. First sequel in the series to be released 20 years after its predecessor, all previous sequels were 3 years apart. The ending of the previous film Rambo III was originally longer and saw Rambo changing his mind and deciding to stay in Afghanistan with the Mujahedeen rebels and Col.

Trautman returning alone to the United States. The first and only Rambo movie in the series to get the Restricted 18 rating in Australia and New Zealand for its graphic violence. Later a member of their church meets Rambo and asks him to transport a group of mercenaries hired to rescue the missionaries. But when he joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn Burma, and rescue a group of Christian aid workers who were kidnapped by the ruthless local infantry unit.

Rambo refuses, but is convinced by another member, Sarah Miller, to take them up there. When the aid workers are captured by the Burmese army, Rambo decides to venture alone into the war zone to rescue them. Living peacefully somewhere in the green jungles of Thailand, nearly two long decades after the Afghan rescue mission in Rambo III , the unstoppable killing machine, John Rambo, seems to have managed to put the bloodshed of war behind him.

However, everything is about to change, when a dauntless team of optimistic missionaries gets captured in war-torn Burma by the vicious militia of the ruthless officer, Major Pa Tee Tint.

Now, John has to go back into the mouth of Hell, on a life-or-death operation to save the condemned hostages. Wherever Rambo goes, carnage follows. Is there a point to deny the fact that he still is the perfect killer? Sign In.