Can Rambo save Burma?

The new Rambo film is out, and includes a basic plot: John Rambo 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.

But now it seems that Sylvester Stallone is taking the film back to reality and has a message for the Burmese military government, via Reuters. :

“Why don’t you invite me over? Let me take a tour of your country without someone pointing a gun at my head and we’ll show you where all the bodies are buried.”

But not only that, according to news reports

the Burmese have “gone crazy” over bootleg copies of the film, and the line “Live for nothing. Die for something” is being used as a rallying cry by dissidents. “This movie could fuel the sentiment of Myanmar people to invite American troops to help save them from the junta,” one Yangon resident told Reuters.

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On to other news:

Son of Osama Bin Laden, Omar, said to his dad:

“Try to find another way to help or find your goal… This bomb, these weapons, it’s no good to use it for anybody.”

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