ASEAN nations are clowns.
they have done nothing since the start of the Myanmar crisis, other
than issuing extremely fanciful words of condemnation, especially
SG's, using vocab such as "obstrusive", "repulsive",
"abhorrent"......paper ministers, paper generals.... 
gambari is a clown as well.
USA pressure him to go back to myanmar immediately again for talks,
but now the joker is on a 6-nation ASEAN tour to "gather support"
and "create the right political atmosphere" before going back to
Yangon in mid-Nov.
so far, this joker has visited Thailand and Malaysia, and all gave
lame excuses, obviously trying to push the buck around, and Gambari
in turn, says the resposibility lies with ASEAN to resolve
this....blah x 3.....
A pass to B, B pass to C, C pass back to A, A pass to D, D pass to
E, E pass to F, F pass to B, B pass to C, C pass to F,.....
so far, the only ones doing real action is the west.....the
whites.
USA has pledged some hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund the
Myanmar anti-junta groups....maybe the latter will use them to buy
arms!!!!
japan has cancelled the major aid packages to myanmar and europe /
usa has further imposed sanctions on the myanmar military.
and what has our own ASEAN folks done so far, besides giving
oh-so-inspiring speeches and issuing a mountain of condemnation
letters?
NOTHING.