Day Zar Lung President Obama’s foreign policy address at West Point this week included a call for U.S. engagement in the world “when crises arise that stir our conscience.” A column by Nicolas Kristof that appeared in the New York Times a day later, “Myanmar’s Appalling Apartheid”, raised troubling questions about how this gets translated into the real world. The President used Burma to illustrate the success of his foreign policy approach. He praised and shared credit for openings in a once closed society but warned: “Progress could be reversed. But if Burma succeeds, we have gained a new partner without firing a shot”, he asserted. Kristof’s column described the living hell that is the lot of more than a million ethnic minority Rohingya in Burma — 150,000 of whom live in total isolation in what many describe as concentration camps. The UN Secretary General describes the Rohingya as the most persecuted people on earth. 5 hrs · Unlike · 2
Posted on: Sat, 31 May 2014 18:33:17 +0000
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