I blame Mandelson for Burma
I blame Mandelson and the EU for propping up Burma’s wicked regime
The EU has not helped Aung San Suu Kyi’s cause
It has been a long-held view of mine that most of the evil in the world today can be traced back, somehow, to Peter Mandelson. People tell me that this is irrational and warped. And yet, as the Burmese soldiers sprayed those protesting monks with tear gas and bunged them in the back of paddy wagons to be taken God knows where and for God knows how long, the EU Trade Commissioner’s spectral form once again swam towards me from inside my television set.
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September 29th, 2007 6:53pmRod Liddle informs us that the usual arguments against sanctions do not apply in the case of Burma, and I like to believe he has done his research on the subject. When, however, he quotes Desmond Tutu as an authority I am not so sure. Ronald Reagan hesitated to go beyond a limited embargo against South Africa, expressing the fear of "punishing the blacks, whom we seek to help". Desmond Tutu reportedly condemned the President's "flea bite" sanctions as the policy of "a racist pure and simple". On the other hand, the same Archbishop, without any obvious sense of humility, later signed a full-page advert in the "International Herald Tribune" headed: "No more economic sanctions. The Iraqi people have suffered enough!". Cool heads and honest hearts are needed for such an important decision.