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How the World Dropped the Ball on Burma

And how we can pick it back up

By Jonas Oransky,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 7, 2007 11:33 AM CDT

(Newser) – International policy on Myanmar is at an impasse because the world went two different ways on the military junta—the US chose isolation while its neighbors chose constructive engagement—and both strategies failed. The country has gone from “antidemocratic embarrassment and humanitarian disaster” to...   Read full story »

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