IT'S UP TO THE ENABLERS

It is increasingly clear that the junta that rules Myanmar is not able, or willing, to save its own people. The generals first failed to alert the public after warnings from India that a cyclone was bearing down on the country. After the terrible disaster, with the death toll at 60,000 and amid fears that disease could push the number to 100,000, the generals have thrown up obstacles to relief efforts - cherry-picking aid offers and barring the entry of disaster-relief workers. Even when aid is permitted, it has been subject to seizure by the military. The United States, which has the greatest capacity of any country to help, considered it a breakthrough that - six days after disaster struck - it was given permission yesterday for a single American aircraft carrying aid to land.