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Southeast Asia
Don’t push Myanmar back into isolation: Win Aung
2003-07-26
The international community should avoid pushing back Myanmar into isolation by imposing or threatening to implement sanctions, the country’s foreign minister said in a commentary published here Friday.
Why not?
“Threats and imposition of sanctions are counter-productive,” Foreign Minister Win Aung said in the article published in Singapore’s Straits Times newspaper. “Sanctions are blunt weapons. They do more harm than good. For many years now, all forms of development assistance have been denied Myanmar by international finance institutions.” He added: “It is one thing to criticise and adopt sanctions. It is quite another to ensure that 52 million people are well-fed, well-clothed and well-sheltered.”
He's operating under the mistaken assumption that anybody gives a rat's patou. Being nice didn't work — so why should we waste more time being nice? It's the old "one false move and the population gets it." North Korea does it better.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#3  He added: “It is one thing to criticise and adopt sanctions. It is quite another to ensure that 52 million people are well-fed, well-clothed and well-sheltered.”

It is NOT the WORLD'S responsibility that Myanmar's citizens are well-fed, well-clothed, and well-sheltered. That responsibility belongs to the government and people of Myanmar. If you want the benefits of international trade, international financing, and international respect, you have to earn it by behaving in a way the rest of the world's nations respect. We do not respect the actions of the Myanmar government. Withholding trade is one way of expressing our loathing of the behavior of the Myanmar government. Don't like it? Tough cojones - either change, or learn to live with it.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2003-7-26 10:23:41 AM  

#2  you western ignoramouses!

Hey! I resent being called a mouse!!
Posted by: Rafael   2003-7-26 7:55:39 AM  

#1  The name isn't Win Aung you western ignoramouses!

It's Daw Craw!!!!
Posted by: Anon1   2003-7-26 3:22:31 AM  

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