Saturday, February 20, 2010

Obama Treats The Dalai Lama Like Garbage

I was hoping that President Obama's meeting with The Dalai Lama would make amends for his snub of the Tibetan spiritual leader last October.

It didn't.

Lee Vanden Brink's caption is worth a thousand words and then some. It's no way to treat a fellow Nobel Laureate.

Kelley Currie has all the sordid details at The Weekly Standard. As she so eloquently asks:

If the American president can't manage to treat the Dalai Lama with an appropriate level of dignity and respect, how can we seriously ask the Chinese to sit down and negotiate with him on matters of core national interest?

Or put another way, how can the Obama Administration ask China to treat The Dalai Lama with respect if they treat him like garbage?

1 comment:

MatthewTan said...

"If the American president can't manage to treat the Dalai Lama with an appropriate level of dignity and respect, how can we seriously ask the Chinese to sit down and negotiate with him on matters of core national interest?"

What a stupid question by stupid people. If you treat a ex-guerilla chief with respect and dignity, you will not even get to talk to China.

As if China needs to talk to you?!

It is strong enough to take care of itself, though not strong enough to take US on.

But don't expect a friendly China if this goes on for the next 20 years. You guys are asking for a confrontation like the 1962 Cuba missile crisis.