The disastrous cyclone Nargis, and the destruction in Burma, or if you prefer, Myanmar, which I don’t prefer, is setting in motion a crisis reaching far beyond the tens of thousands of people who have died or are missing and the hundreds of thousands more who are homeless or threatened by disease. More than one million people are directly affected by the fallout from the storm. Food shortages and the rising prices of food suggest chaos and hunger around the world. Burma was supposed to begin exporting its rice harvest this year, counted on by neighboring countries like Sri Lanka...