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The Three Amigos, in Bhutan
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Dec 05, 2008 07:49am |
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| News Date | Thursday, December 4, 2008 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Carl Hulse
The election is behind them but the three amigos – Senators John McCain, Joseph I. Lieberman and Lindsey Graham – are still jetting from place to place. Only now it is across South Asia.
The trio turned up today in tiny Bhutan, a Buddhist kingdom nestled between India and China and hardly a typical destination for a high-powered Congressional delegation led by the very recent Republican nominee for president. The inhabitants of the kingdom have only been able to watch television in the last decade.
But as it turns out, Bhutan had its own landmark election this year, installing a constitutional democracy in what had been a total monarchy. The development prompted Mr. McCain and his Senate colleagues to make the visit, according to aides, to support the democratic movement in the strategically located nation. They had an audience with the new king, 28-year old Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, whose country is for the first time operating under the administration of an elected prime minister. |
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