Foreign Policy

Ivo Daalder is a senior foreign policy adviser for Obama. I don't really like him. He's one of those pompous liberals who wants the UN to intervene in Myanmar. While I think the US can and should be talking to Myanmar's neighbors about getting them to accept more help, it's wrong to think that the UN should demand Myanmar to allow UN humanitarian workers to be allowed to go in and do whatever they want. Unless you are ready to go in and pour a lot of resources into overthrowing their government rebuilding Myanmar, it's not like the political situation is going to get better. Ivo is too obsessed with being moral and not enough about being practical.