The Obama administration declared on Tuesday, May 17th that they were lifting sanctions on 10 state-run companies and banks in the effort of recognizing Myanmar’s strides toward a democratic government, the country that formerly knew as Burma. The motion will take effect on Wednesday, May 18th, by removing the sanction, it will allow individuals, banks and companies to do business with all Burmese financial institutions, making the flow of exports in and out of Myanmar more accessible. They will be removing few state-owned business and banks in Myanmar from the list of sanctioned enterprises, that includes timber and mining companies and gem concerns that are now owned by civilian rather than the military. This is one of president Obama’s
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Limiting all the businesses and most of it resources. Putting the sanction against Myanmar was definitely was an act of a punishment for not doing what they told to do. Maybe Myanmar’s shift toward democracy wasn’t much of a voluntary movement, but more of being ‘forced’ maybe not physically but mentally to make the necessary changes, so they can be on a good term with the United States that they once were. If this is true, then the United states have influential power over Myanmar. By banning and cutting the financial and diplomacy communication from and with the U.S made Myanmar to make this ‘historical move toward democracy’. Benjamin J. Rhodes have mentioned that it was important to reward Myanmar for its steps toward democratization. Since lifting the sanction against Myanmar was a reward for a historic move toward democracy, and saying that it wasn’t Myanmar’s fault for being under a brutal military rule. Then putting the sanction against Myanmar in the first place was and in fact a punishment for being ruled under a brutal military …show more content…
As a ruler of this country his decisions has to be rational and beneficiary to the United states. But sometimes his final decisions on things don’t always turn out to be the perfect solution, after all he is just a human like us. Obama’s decision on renewing the sanction against Myanmar but tweak it, probably took him a long time to come to a conclusion. Jervis mentioned in his reading that some information is incredibly limited and uncertain, and when there is an information there, they are often ambiguous. Most unfortunate even if we attempt to analyze a situation it happens routinely that we come off as different analysis and different interpretation of the situation. President, the Senate and the vice president are the three most important people who makes the final decision for our country. They must have run into disagreements when they are in the process of making rational decisions all together. They all have made a rational choice individually, but when they get together to make the final decision it must’ve taken longer time to come to a conclusion. The U.S. business lobby says it is the appropriate time to lift the remaining U.S. sanctions on Myanmar. But Myanmar plunged to the lowest international ranking for almost every indicator. Specially that they are all the way on the bottom of the list on human rights and narcotics trafficking, respect
Limiting all the businesses and most of it resources. Putting the sanction against Myanmar was definitely was an act of a punishment for not doing what they told to do. Maybe Myanmar’s shift toward democracy wasn’t much of a voluntary movement, but more of being ‘forced’ maybe not physically but mentally to make the necessary changes, so they can be on a good term with the United States that they once were. If this is true, then the United states have influential power over Myanmar. By banning and cutting the financial and diplomacy communication from and with the U.S made Myanmar to make this ‘historical move toward democracy’. Benjamin J. Rhodes have mentioned that it was important to reward Myanmar for its steps toward democratization. Since lifting the sanction against Myanmar was a reward for a historic move toward democracy, and saying that it wasn’t Myanmar’s fault for being under a brutal military rule. Then putting the sanction against Myanmar in the first place was and in fact a punishment for being ruled under a brutal military …show more content…
As a ruler of this country his decisions has to be rational and beneficiary to the United states. But sometimes his final decisions on things don’t always turn out to be the perfect solution, after all he is just a human like us. Obama’s decision on renewing the sanction against Myanmar but tweak it, probably took him a long time to come to a conclusion. Jervis mentioned in his reading that some information is incredibly limited and uncertain, and when there is an information there, they are often ambiguous. Most unfortunate even if we attempt to analyze a situation it happens routinely that we come off as different analysis and different interpretation of the situation. President, the Senate and the vice president are the three most important people who makes the final decision for our country. They must have run into disagreements when they are in the process of making rational decisions all together. They all have made a rational choice individually, but when they get together to make the final decision it must’ve taken longer time to come to a conclusion. The U.S. business lobby says it is the appropriate time to lift the remaining U.S. sanctions on Myanmar. But Myanmar plunged to the lowest international ranking for almost every indicator. Specially that they are all the way on the bottom of the list on human rights and narcotics trafficking, respect