Saturday, February 25, 2006

My Pick to Head the UN.

A darkhorse name that has been floated around to be the next head the UN is Aung San Suu Kyi. The military of Burma/Myramar is so afraid of this four-eleven woman that they have locked her under house arrest for the last fifteen years. This means no one but her nurse sees her. This means the leaders of this country are afraid of any word that she might utter or write, but they are also afraid to murder a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and hero of the people. She continues to sacrafice everything, including time with her children and now deceased husband live in peaceful defiance of the military junta and demand democracy. As she has said, "There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance and fear.

I understand her first loyalties are to her own people, and not fighting the US on a dozen issues, but she'd be my choice.

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