David I. Steinberg wrote an excellent piece on Burma in the CSIS blog.

Working with the people inside the country for several years HDFF just can 100% agree… sanctions do not help at all and the chance of a “softer”parliament is really there as the military recognize that the globalized world need a lot of “civilian”… experience.

So let them open slowly and lets make long term politics. It took several decades to bring the Berlin Wall down and the first “soft”approach from the other side came 25 years before the fall. Give the Burmese time and let the young generation come.

HDFF’s team experienced a lot of very very good young capable people in Burma and HDFF likes to work with them. The future is in the Youth !