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...applied across the board. Military intervention cannot be restricted to what U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali crudely referred to as a "rich man's war." It logically implies that U.N. intervention in Eastern Europe should be matched by similar action in other catastrophic conflicts: in Somalia, Ethiopia, Burundi, Burma and elsewhere. By the same token, this new world cannot be managed unilaterally by the U.S. but must instead work from the consent of all major powers around the globe. It would have to be supported by their armies and their treasuries...
...attach political conditions to China's most-favored-nation status. In fact, MFN is a misnomer: it implies special treatment but really means normal, equal treatment. All but a handful of the 187 countries on earth have MFN, including such pariahs and miscreants as Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya and Burma...
...igniting secessionist wars ever since. Possibly the deadliest one within the past decade has been the insurrection of Hindu Tamil groups against the Buddhist Sinhalese in Sri Lanka. The Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace counts, among many others, six separate conflicts in India and three each in Burma and Indonesia in which guerrilla groups are seeking independence...
...temple, called Angkor Wat, was the work of the ancient Khmer kings of Angkor, whose empire stretched from what is now southern Vietnam to Burma. Today a first-time visitor may feel like a modern Indiana Jones who spies misty towers peaking behind dense foliage and thinks he has discovered a lost civilization...
...Burma: The Human Rights Pariah--by James Ross, director, Asia Program, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights; congressional witness for human rights violations in Pakistan, Philippines, and Burma. Pound Hall, room...