No, Hillary. You Did Not Bring Democracy to Burma.
Clinton points to Burma as a prime example of her foreign policy leadership. But how far has the country really come?
Meanwhile, the pro-Clinton super-PAC Correct the Record has taken up the task of highlighting Clinton's achievements in the former pariah state. On its website, the super-PAC quotes a 2012 editorial by the Tampa Bay Times: "Clinton took a leading role in moving Myanmar's generals to accept the modern era."
While Steinberg agrees that the improvement of US-Burma relations has been a success—and even the Obama administration's only success in East Asia—when it comes to Burma's political transition, "I do not think the US can take credit," he tells Mother Jones. The Burmese junta did not suddenly decide to hand over power to a quasi-civilian government because the United States asked it to; it had been planning to do so for nearly two decades. "This reform came from the top—it's not like the Middle East Arab Spring," says Steinberg.
It's difficult to know why the junta relinquished the government, but there were likely several factors: They knew their country was falling behind economically, they may have wanted to avoid a revolt or overreliance on Chinese assistance, and, given advances in technology, they may have recognized that they couldn't isolate their people from the outside world forever.
Today, former junta leaders are still running the show, albeit in civilian clothes, says Kyaw Zwa Moe, editor of the Irrawaddy's English-language edition. "To maintain their grip on power they have transformed their image from time to time," he wrote in a commentary last year, tracing the political trajectory over the past half century, "from a military regime to a socialist dictatorship, to another military regime and finally to the current nominally civilian government." While people in cities have seen improvements in their lives, including an easing of media restrictions and the opportunity to vote, Steinberg adds that "the real change"—improvements for the 70 percent of the population who live in rural areas—hasn't happened yet.
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Thanks for posting it. 
she did find a cure for cancer 