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I would think that the paranoid Burmese regime would be especially paranoid about Great Britain. In any event, this catastrophic typhoon was hardly unexpected, although the media typically gets a bit overwrought about the sort of natural disasters that are unremarkable historically in this part of the world. Remember that every event of annual flooding in Bangladesh is reported as a singular catastrophe, despite the fact that it happens every year, in varying degrees of severity. Now is the time for deep reflection, not about typhoons, monsoons and tsunamis, but the base and condescending nature of western philanthropy. NGOs used the Indonesian tsunami as an excuse for lavish and self aggrandizing fund raising, navies used the disaster as a convenient photo op, and squatters from unaffected, inland areas quickly rushed into the destroyed and deserted coastal areas to collect undeserved aid, while the true victims were for the most part, drowned, dead and washed out to sea. The true disaster was the poverty and desperation in Banda Aceh, a condition that had existed long before the tsunami. Ironically, the massive infusion of aid money served to make on of the poorest regions of Indonesia relatively affluent in the short term, helping to end the civil war. We should all step back and appreciate the continuing, daily human tragedy in Myanmar/Burma, remembering that disaster and suffering is a daily experience for the Burmese people.