Packer praises Clinton’s words on Burma:
It’s encouraging…that the new Administration has put aside the previous one’s moral fantasies without adopting new ones. Self-righteousness is not a foreign policy. Making ourselves feel good about ourselves should not be the goal of policy toward Burma or anywhere else. Our interest remains in a Burma that treats its people and its neighbors with increasing decency. How to get there is a much harder call, but at least the secretary of state understands that the world is a complicated place, and that the failure of one approach doesn’t mean the success of its opposite.
The Dish 