{"id":105,"date":"2003-06-06T23:29:35","date_gmt":"2003-06-06T23:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:07:43","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:07:43","slug":"engine_charlie_wilson_is_alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Engine Charlie Wilson Is Alive&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/home_asia\/newswire\/2003\/06\/06\/rtr993270.html\" target=\"browser\">Forbes<\/a>.com today, a business group comes out against sanctions to support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/mason\/stories\/WO0306\/S00047.htm\" target=\"browser\">Aung San Suu Kyi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>New sanctions against Myanmar, where pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained for a week, would do nothing to force the government to relinquish power, a U.S. business coalition said Friday.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Continued&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;The proposed new sanctions will bring &#8230; neither freedom nor democracy to the Burmese people,&#8221; said Bill Reinsch, president of the National Foreign Trade Council and co-chairman of USA Engage, a coalition of over 670 businesses, agriculture groups and trade associations opposed to unilateral sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Existing U.S. sanctions have accomplished exactly nothing &#8212; other than to hurt a population that is in desperate need of economic aid,&#8221; Reinsch said in a statement.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Surf over to the NFTC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nftc.org\/default.asp?Mode=DirectoryDisplay&#038;id=1&#038;Category=All\" target=\"browser\">website<\/a>, and notice that they oppose all boycott activity, including congresional atempts to limit business given to German and French companies in response to their psoitions on the Iraq War. <\/p>\n<p>Surf over to the USA Engage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaengage.org\/?id=120\" target=\"browser\">website<\/a>, and notice that they are an equal-opportunity supporter of international trade with thugs, as they support trade with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaengage.org\/news\/2003\/may\/labercastro.htm\" target=\"browser\">Castro<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>Engine Charlie lives; we obviously shouldn&#8217;t let little things like politics get in the way of $366 million in annual import\/export business. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A business group comes out against sanctions to support Aung San Suu Kyi and the brave dissidents of Burma\/Myanmar. Engine Charlie lives; we obviously shouldn&#8217;t let little things like politics get in the way of $366 million in annual import\/export business. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}