Back to Burma

Friends of mine will be going to Burma soon and I was a bit envious. I am curious to come closer to that place to understand what has happened over the last 30-40 years...once a beautiful Buddhist country now self-destructive. So much of the world seems to have fallen apart over the last 30-40 years. My conclusion is that the leftist modernization of 50s,60s, and 70s seems to have left too many people without power and so they pushed to come to power (otherwise known as backlash) and now we have lots of countries run by lots of angry people (our own notwithstanding).

This is a link to a blog I really liked about Burma and China.
http://icga.blogspot.com/2008/05/china-lights-path-for-burma.html