The truth is that we’d be better off if the entire rest of the world were communist. That way, we would not have to compete against them for scarce world resources because they’d be living in poverty, and would not be able to purchase them anyway.
shocker
Question: Why do these leftist "struggles" never take place in or in regard to sub-Saharan [a.k.a. Black] Africa? Why Timor more than Zimb.? Why Tibet more than Kenya?
I laughed out loud at this article. Here in LA you STILL see ‘Free Tibet’ bumperstickers. I know darned well these are lefties, you can tell by their beater-cars and the plethora of bumperstickers plastered on them.
It’s just lovely to see them trying to figure out which thing they cherish more — Marxism or Free Tibet, black folks or wimmen, etc.
Get the popcorn.
The author left me when he equated our efforts in Iraq to “occupation”. No idiot in his right mind would consider 150,000 troops in a country of millions, to be an occupation.
The length of the article relative to the subject at hand, exceeded by a factor of huge. He seemingly couldn’t get to the point, and I was having difficulties finding it.
While the current Dalai Lama is a worldly diplomat, I have some apprehensions about a free Tibet as a theocracy under his successor, under religious laws and with monks as policemen.
People assume Buddhism is peaceful and gentle and all that, but not all versions of Buddhism are like that. I doubt that we would see the equivalent of a Buddhist Taliban, but any form of government that isn’t democratic I have apprehensions about.
This is a long read but it is an excellent myth buster of an article. This presents an accurate view of Tibetan history from a Tibetan perspective and debunks the communist/liberal propaganda of Tibet being better off under ChiCom boot heels.