Reviewing Peter Popham's biography of Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi, Josh Kurlantzick contrasts the challenges Suu Kyi faced as a prisoner to the ones she faces as a politician:
Compared to withstanding 15 years in house arrest virtually alone, watching her husband die in another country while she remained in detention, being separated from her sons, and seeing her allies tortured and murdered, today’s compromises might seem easy. But with those other hardships, Suu Kyi herself was little to blame—the decisions were being made for her, and her courage was in standing up to them. Now, her courage will have to be revealed in the deals and compromises she makes—the type of legacy that does not lead to Nobel Peace Prizes, but might well leave Myanmar a real future.
The Dish 