Junta is leading Burma in the right

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Junta is leading Burma in the right direction

Aung San Suu Kyi is wrong. Open attacks upon companies seeking to invest in
Burma and the ongoing attempts to embarrass companies already in Burma with
distorted facts are not the proper procedures for someone who is attempting
to be a future leader. It almost appears as if she is trying to starve to
death the very people she wishes to lead. 

Foreign investment in Burma will create thousands of new jobs and provide
technology transfer to the people. 

The people of Burma need food on their table today, not in the distant
future. 

How many generations must suffer due to her clinging on to an idea, which
is serving only her own personal goals. 

What is wrong with thinking that it is possible for an open capitalist
market -- Asian style -- to operate within the cultural, traditional and
economic values of Burma? 

Many other countries of the world have watched as their people have
suffered due to ill-conceived sanctions andother forms of punishment simply
because their views were not shared equally by all. 

I have lived in Burma for more than eight years. 

During this time I have witnessed personally, not through the media, the
many changes taking place. 

There is no doubt in my mind that the progress and development which has
taken place here since the opening of Burma -- infrastructure development,
private businesses, health care and all other sectors falling under the
responsibility of the government -- have improved dramatically each year
since 1988. 

Burma is a safe place to raise a family while offering a quiet and peaceful
lifestyle. Burma is the Thailand your parents have spoken to you about when
they were children. 

Burma is a place to visit before having your ideas shaped by media reports
of reporters listening only to political exiles. 

Considering the options faced by the military in 1990, they made the
correct choice. 

Yes, there have been mistakes made, mistakes that have been corrected or
are in the process of being corrected. 

Even the great USA is changing laws and policies monthly as required to
co-exist in this ever-changing new global economy. 

Pat James 
A Texan in Burma