Majora Carter
If this stuff keeps happening, we may remember 2008 as the year of the Tibet Olympics.
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on April 10, 2008 at 8:00 pm tvp wrote:
The whole thing has me disgusted. I’ve cited the case of Tibet going way back to when we freed Kuwait. One country has an historical land interest in another and takes it over militarily. In one case, the US does nothing. In the other case, the US acts as if it’s a huge moral issue that must be addressed.
I’ve always said that I can understand a foreign policy in which the US intervenes in cases where children starve and people with guns rule. However, a policy like that would have to be evenly applied.
The truth is: if all you’ve got is some Yaks and a hut, the US isn’t going to help you. If you have a lot of oil, we’ll be there tomorrow. If your arms are being chopped off in Africa to keep you from voting in a local election, it gets buried in the news and not an issue to our government.
All the people left out in the cold by US foreign policy–such as the Tibetans–stand as silent witness to our nation’s hypocrisy.
on April 11, 2008 at 8:05 am Doug wrote:
Yeah, the Tibet situation is a very sad one. Non-violent protest as used by MLK and Gandhi is sometimes effective, but for now Tibet is a tribute to the power of violence over non-violence. And one creepy aspect is that so much time has gone by (nearly 50 years), so it’s becoming a de-facto “truth” that Tibet is part of China. I had a conversation with a young Chinese guy in Beijing about Tibet, and he seemed to see it as something that was an issue for his father’s generation.
Hey, Mahugh.com was down this morning due to a billing snafu (we changed banks recently when we got ready to buy the house, and they still had the old card#). So if anybody had strange clumsiness with long prompts and other nonsense here on the blog, that should be resolved by late Friday morning.
on April 11, 2008 at 12:04 pm Lynn Bradley wrote:
Thanks for the explanation. I thought it was my problem somehow. Disregard my frantic emails cc to Megan. All is ok now.
on April 11, 2008 at 5:21 pm Mom LaVonne Mahugh wrote:
So that is why I couldn’t get your Blog. Did you get my e-mail and voice mail messages about it?
Give me a call.
Mom