I would just like to stand in support of my friend and colleague from New Mexico and everything that he stated. I would just say that there is a tragedy. an ongoing tragedy in Burma. The people of the United States have historically stood for freedom and democracy and if. indeed. we would continue this stand in Southeast Asia. many of the problems that we face today. like this refugee problem that is being expressed. talked about today. would not be confronting us. Unfortunately. what we have done in these last 4 and 5 years is we have tried our best to try to romance the SLORO regime. We have done our best. and the gentleman from New Mexico has done heroic deeds in the cause of democracy. Yet. trying to treat this dictatorship with kid gloves. trying to move them along outside of the arena of tyranny has not worked. Today we are confronted with not only a monstrous repressive regime but refugees whose lives are in our hands today. I just stand in support of my colleagues efforts and my colleagues amendment.
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