Huh?

From a CNN article about much needed aid to Burma that the government of Myanmar/Burma will not allow to be delivered:

"There is great sensitivity all over the world to violating a country's sovereignty," Gates said. "Particularly in the absence of some kind of U.N. umbrella that would authorize it."

This is a completely different situation, that would potentially put our military in the position of bringing aid to people who really really need it. And I realize Gates hasn't been around for most of the Bush administration's foreign policy. But did anybody else laugh out loud at the irony?

And maybe shed some tears for those who might have benefited this time from our government's previous lack of respect for national sovereignty and the UN?