"Look, the human rights record is shaky, yes, and it's politically nice to beat up Burma, but the military has actually been quite helpful to us".
"Politically nice to beat up Burma"?
The article quotes Frank Smithuis, director of Médecins Sans Frontières in Burma: "Look, the human rights record is shaky, yes, and it's politically nice to beat up Burma, but the military has actually been quite helpful to us".
He is politically skillful.
This is win-win politically.
The typical chief executive, he said, to chuckles, is "the guy you knew in college, the fraternity president—not too bright, back-slapping, but a survivor, politically astute, a nice guy".
The typical chief executive, he says, is "the guy you knew in college, the fraternity president—not too bright, back-slapping, but a survivor, politically astute, a nice guy".
I recently sat next to one on an airplane; very nice, polite guy, even if he was, politically speaking, quite the brainwashed little zombie.
deserves some credit, and I'll be nice and politically correct about that, but you know what?
"I remember at one point, I said, 'You know sometimes you meet someone who you just can't find a way politically to say anything nice about them?
"We're going to try and keep it going, but politically it was always nice to have the archdiocese publicly supporting us by having a ministry here," Ms. Ruth said.
