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...George W. Bush criticized the "reign of fear" in Burma; he unveiled further restrictions on the regime, including travel bans to the U.S. for members of the junta and their families, extending sanctions that have been in place for a decade. The same day, Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband spoke of how "brilliant" it was to see monks march on Saturday to the home of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the daughter of the independence hero who led Burma's struggle against the British. Suu Kyi has spent much of the past 18 years under house...
...Conditions on the base are spartan and, amid mounting casualty rates, some of the young British soldiers serving there as part of the NATO-led mission complain their work isn't properly appreciated back home. They expressed these concerns during a July visit by the U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband and, within the past two months, they have been able to make their case to a stream of visiting VIPs: Defense Secretary Des Browne, his Minister for the Armed Forces Bob Ainsworth, Britain's army chief General Sir Richard Dannatt and David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party. Despite...
Critics who damned Blair as Bush's poodle were eagerly looking for such signs. When Brown took over, they dared to hope that the British bulldog would now cock its leg on neocon policy. Miliband's own appointment hinted at a shift. He is seen as a skeptic on the war in Iraq, though he supported the government line - something he is reputed not to have done when Israel invaded Lebanon last year. "Blair's position was too close [to the U.S.], and now they have to find a way of getting some distance without causing a rift," says Charles...
Certainly not Miliband, who spent years in the U.S., first at junior high school in Massachusetts and later at mit. But it's European history that shaped him. The son of Jewish intellectuals who fled the Holocaust - his father was a Marxist theoretician, his mother a political activist - his was a childhood marinated in debate. He emerged, he says, as a "conviction politician," and - like his younger brother Ed, also a member of Brown's Cabinet - a Labour man to his bones. "Politics is about which side of the fence you're on," he says, "and I've always been...
With foreign-policy questions stacking like planes over a busy airport, Miliband will need a sense of clarity. The British government plans to focus on Darfur as well as Afghanistan, while continuing to reduce its participation in Iraq, and also contending with such headaches as a deteriorating relationship with Russia. Miliband won't have an easy ride. "Another couple of weeks and I'll probably be very white," he says, pointing to a gray streak in his black locks. If so, that'll be one less problem for him to deal with...