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In October, I wrote here about “Progress in Burma.”
This week, happily, there is more. The regime has released over six hundred prisoners, many of them key political prisoners. The United States will respond by sending an ambassador to Burma for the first time in twenty years. Moreover, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. John McCain will visit Burma this weekend. Read more »
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During Secretary of State Kerry’s visit to Moscow, it seems we have proposed an international conference on Syria as a…
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