Sadly typical US foreign policy:

They may be a son of a bitch but they are our son of a bitch.

But am I talking about Myanmar or Saudi Arabia? Apparently Hillary had it all figured out.

Another Nobel Prize committee success story.

https://ericmargolis.com/2018/09/burmas-crimes-go-unpunished/

by Eric Margolis

As the genocidal horrors in Myanmar unfold, I am kicking myself for having risked my skin to go see then sainted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

This event occurred in Rangoon (now Yangon) in 1996 when Suu Kyi was the revered democratic opposition leader resisting the nation’s brutal military regime. The western media loved her, as it always does third world female politicians fighting dictatorships and thugs. The saintly Suu Kyi was even given a Nobel Prize by Sweden’s always giddy liberals…

Once rich Burma was bankrupted and dirt poor after many years of dictatorial rule by eccentric army general Ne Win who terrorized his people and practiced necromancy, other black arts and socialism. Gen. Win used the large Burmese Army to battle the nation’s many ethnic secessionists: Shan, Karen, Mon, Wa, Chinese. He persecuted the Rohingya Muslims of Rakhine state. Read the rest of this entry »