I guess the right wingnuts don't want to take the chance of offending our new landloards.

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America is China's bitch.

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The great irony is that the Tibet issue is reduced to anomaly. The neo-con is right in only one respect. The sides have switched.

The National Review’s Krikorian forgets this or is it simply a selective unknowing as with Tenzin groupies? The Dali was and may well still be under CIA tutelage.

Tenzin Gyatso, aka His Holiness the Dali Lama, was on the CIA payroll at more than $1.2 million per annum from 1956 until at least 1972.
www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/vol_xxx/337_343.html

Yes, he is no man of peace but of armed invasion, like Nobel laureate Kissinger.

The National Review neo-con forgets this or is simply as selectively unknowing as Tenzin groupies? The Dali was and may well still be under CIA tutelage.

A cursory look at any pre-1972 Encyclopedia Britannica, the 11th Ed. may be the best, is the first stop for anyone who cares about seeking an understanding of the revisionism promoted by both the neo-cons and Dali dilatants. Tibet was no Shangri-La. Invasion in 1950 by China is a myth. Tibet has been a suzerainty (protectorate) of China (beginning with Mongolian Khan who then became Emperor of China) for over 700 years. There was an invasion of an abjectly feudal Tibetan theocracy that was in large part a creation of past Chinese Emperors interference. The Chinese Kuomintang was already in Tibet and fled ahead of the Chinese Red Army. Tibet was the last province reached by the Revolutionaries in the civil war against Chiang Kai-shek's corrupt Kuomintang. The invasion was not by “Chinese”; the invasion was by Mao’s Red Army. Promise of land reform was the key to Mao’s success, but the aristocratic elite, (including the Panchen Lama and Dali Lama of Tibet) naturally hated the passing of feudalism at the hands of the red peril.

I contributed ample comments to Lobsang Chodron’s pro-Exile AlterNet article here:

http://www.alternet.org/audits/80893/?cID=872890#c872890

But the best comment you can see by scrolling down about ¾ of the way to the most succinct comment by “gsolti”. It has convenient links for ease of research that are guaranteed to turn around any open mind to the fact that there is more than a Lama’s side to the story.

For Americans to advocate the reestablishment of a CIA agent Lama’s theocracy, after the example of Israel; and after Progressives witnessing the corporatism of the Bush Administration endorsement of the Religious Right and destruction of US Constitution, is democratic blasphemy and treason.

Shell we call for the reestablishment of the Kuomintang?

Shall we endorse the coming post-Fidel invasion of Cuba in order to reestablish the feudalism of the corrupt Batista government in Cuba?

Shall we continue to be duped by Tenzin Gyolpa, an elitist who has approved of US invasion of Afghanistan and can’t even make up his mind on Iraq. Rather lets compare him to Gandhi, who lived naked and suffered with his people against the gringo British occupiers and was a true pacifist. Or Jesus who said love your enemy, render unto Caesar his coinage.

The sad thing about this red herring is that it distracts our constructive criticism of China where it will really help to improve the World’s and China’s response to its environmental problems. The CIA and British M16 invented and corrupt ‘Tibetan Government in Exile’ distracts attention from the sins of our own neo-colonial and truly genocidal Bush foreign policy of today. It also points out the ease at which Goebbels propaganda manipulates public opinion to the point ‘progressives’ can be turned inside out. Fascist Krikorian is right about that; granted. Krikorian 1; Holland 0.5.

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