Tag: burma
Three months ago, Robert Kaplan and (to a lesser extent) George Packer decided to try to use Burmese cyclone victims as props in Humanitarian Intervention III: Objective Burma! The argument was that S
George Packer writes: If the fear of Baghdad and Falluja is what keeps foreign powers from saving huge numbers of Burmese from their own government’s callousness, that will be one more tragic conseq
1. It’s a terrible idea. 2. It’s a terrible idea because… The problem with Burma right now is that the civil service infrastructure is by turns unable and unwilling to manage the dis
Maung Aung Zeya was born in the village of Moksobo around 1714. His family enjoyed considerable local stature, and Maung Aung Zeya rose to the position of headman at a young age. The previous Burmese
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