TOKYO -- Quiet Asian diplomacy is proving as ineffective as Western bluster and U.N. moralizing in getting comprehensive aid to the victims of Burma's cyclone. They are being left to die in the tens of thousands by a world that promised but failed to develop the tools of humanitarian intervention.
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