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Commentary: game of hints, promises and deception

editors note -
in reading in ny times article
Myanmar Rulers Still Impeding Access

i am caught by the revolving door that all point of view, agenda driven propaganda including but not limited to political and religious motivate comments all tend to be about promisses and deceptions - in my doc in progress “Who’s Wearing the Emperor’s New Clothes” if so many people believe in something how can it be wrong - i ask the question what is not propaganda what is it that we keep repeating the same endless game of hints, promises and deception

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excerpt from article link
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/world/asia/03myanmar.html
a game of hints, promises and deception that it has used successfully over the years to deflect criticism from abroad.

“In all these crises that the Burmese face, there always is the teaser to take the pressure off the government,” said Josef Silverstein, an expert on Myanmar at Rutgers University.

“They seem like they are going to cooperate, and just as soon as comment dies down, anything that is going to be useful dies with it,” he said. “Look back at the ‘saffron revolution,’ when they made all kinds of promises about what they were going to do and nothing happened.”

He was referring to a peaceful uprising led by monks that was crushed in September. The junta’s promises included a dialogue with the democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, but it dropped the idea after international attention had moved on.