The deadly cyclone that ripped into Myanmar over the weekend could shake the stranglehold on power of the country's ruling generals -- becoming a force for change more powerful than massive pro-democracy demonstrations and international sanctions.
Natural disasters by themselves are unlikely to trigger change, but instead tend to help undermine already corrupt or failing systems.
Few people think revolution is in the air in Myanmar -- not while the victims are still burying their dead, now totaling 22,000 and climbing. 
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