By Christian Davenport
The Washington Post
U.S. Sen. James Webb has explored Southeast Asia as a Marine Corps infantryman, a novelist, a journalist and a business consultant, and as a politician who has criticized America's foreign policy and urged for greater involvement.
He has had a particular interest in Myanmar, whose people, he wrote, "need our assistance and our strong involvement in order to have the kind of future that we claim is our objective in the first place."
Now in the midst of a two-week, five-country tour in which he became the first member of Congress to visit Myanmar (also known as Burma) in a decade, his objective has been to reach out to a country, and a region, that he says the United States left isolated.
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