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7. I noticed that,too. If that guy was a political appointment (Seb Gorka style) it's probably that he

Reply to Cyrano (Reply #4)

Fri Jul 19, 2019, 03:12 PM

Jul 2019

doesn't KNOW it's been called Myanmar since 1989. But if he was an actual advisor from the State Department, he probably figured the chances were zero that Trump would know where Myanmar is; and PRACTICALLY zero that he'll know where Burma is, too. But the only other option was to call it "that place where Alec Guinness built a bridge in 'Bridge on the River Kwai.'"

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