Aung San Suu Kyi, René Girard and Kotkin

Rohingya refugees.

Roger Cohen can't bring himself to say it. Kofi Annan told him “We created a saint and the saint has become a politician, and we don’t like that.” That immediately raises the question: Why is it in her political interest to obfuscate the suffering of the Rohingya? What Cohen can't bring himself to say; more generally, what remains unsa…