First Lady vs. Burmese junta; Washington Post article

Nice to see Laura Bush taking an interest in the situation in Burma.

Here's the first paragraph of a long Post article re: the First Lady's work on behalf of the Burmese people:

"It's a long way from the broad expanse of Texas to the lush forests of Burma, from the boots-and-broncos rodeo in nearby Waco to the bloody crackdown against barefoot monks in Rangoon. Yet that troubled faraway land somehow has gotten under the skin of a former librarian from the Lone Star State and vaulted toward the top of the U.S. foreign policy agenda."

Read the rest here.

- Sujewa