Never appeared in my print version:
"Senior US diplomats visit Myanmar" by Associated Press | November 3, 2009
YANGON, Myanmar - Two senior US officials headed to Myanmar today for the highest-level visit in more than a decade and talks billed as a key pivot in Washington’s longtime stance of shunning the junta....
I am ALWAYS for TALKING no matter WHO IT IS!!!!
The United States has traditionally relied heavily on sanctions meant to force Myanmar’s generals to respect human rights, release imprisoned political activists and make democratic reforms.
Like we can shoot off our hypocritical mouths to people and expect to be taken seriously.
Washington has said it will maintain its tough political and economic sanctions against the regime until talks with Myanmar’s generals result in change.
So no real change.
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YANGON, Myanmar - The United States began a new policy of engagement with Myanmar’s ruling military junta yesterday, sending two senior diplomats for the highest-level visit in more than a decade.
Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, the top US diplomat for East Asia, and his deputy, Scot Marciel, held talks with junta officials and also were to meet detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, embassy spokesman Richard Mei said....
Did you know, Suu Kyi is Burmese for CIA?
Related: Get Your Yettaws Out
Briefing for the policy change was he?
The Obama administration has reversed the Bush administration’s isolation of Myanmar in favor of direct high-level talks with a country that has been ruled by the military since 1962.
Hey, I WILL GIVE HIM HIS DUE when it is CHANGE (blog editor applauding); however, I WAS HOPING FOR MORE than THIS!
And he HASN'T CHANGED ANYTHING yet!
“Mr. Campbell’s visit is the beginning of a new US engagement policy toward Myanmar. This is the first step of the engagement but we have to see what comes out of the new engagement policy,’’ said Nyan Win, spokesman for Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party.
Campbell is the highest-ranking US official to visit Myanmar since a September 1995 trip by then-United Nations Ambassador Madeleine Albright....
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Madelaine Albright?
She is a FINE ONE TO TALK -- especially THEN!!!
"Sometimes Genocide Is OK...
It just depends who is in office at the moment.
Here is a much forgotten exchange between Lesley Stahl and Madeleine Albright on "60 Minutes" back on May 12, 1996 that is not getting much play lately:
Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?In case you missed that episode, here is the video:
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.
Unconscious767 posted this video at YouTube and added this:
It's worth noting that on 60 Minutes, Albright made no attempt to deny the figure given by Stahl--a rough rendering of the preliminary estimate in a 1995 U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report that 567,000 Iraqi children under the age of five had died as a result of the sanctions.
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Over there lecturing the Burmese was she?
