Intellect and Emotion and Reluctance.
POTUS first venture to Asia started weakly and now plunges into doublespeak and vagueness as I checked Saturday 14 with Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, John Bolton, AEI, and Howard Cutler, author, re the disappointment of observers at the unusually low expectation of the Obama administration with regard the Beijing cadre. Trade, Tibet, Xinjiang, Christians in China, human rights in general, all are a disappointment on the POTUS calendar. The most frustrating problem is the decision by POTUS neither to meet with the Dalai Lama last Spring nor to raise the outrage of the abuse of the Tibetans. I asked re this dilemma of Howard Cutler, who knows the Dalai Lama well, having published now two books with His Holiness on the "Art of Happiness," and Howard's working answer is that POTUS has made an intellectual decision and divorced himself from a positive emotional consideration. The result is that it makes little sense historically and politically. POTUS pleases no one, flatters Hu and the Beijing bullies (Hu built his cruel reputation on abusing Tibet) and delays the inevitable confrontation over human rights in a rising China. It also presents a false face to America. We are not reluctant. Speaking Mary Kissel on Sunday 15 at Hong Kong Kong re POTUS remarks at the town hall scheduled in Shanghai. Howard Cutler told me that the number one question emailed to the event by Chinese students was on Tibet and the Dalai Lama.
When Bush 43 was in China, he specifically went to a Christian Church to worship. Will the Saintly BHO do the same?
Only persons with no stake in this earthly existence can in clear conscience fail to appreciate the difference between a (mental patient) suicide bomber and a Dalai Lama or Pope who are more than willing to offer their good offices in an effort to ease religious tensions around the world.
Whether one wants to believe it or not, there really are those in whose interest it is to actively promote strife. In religious terms they could be classified as demonic or evil. Some sell arms; some direct armies; others are in the throes of some version of a death wish. Many, if not most, carry U.S passports.
They all profit hugely from war (or the threat of it), funded by Marxist sycophants whose manifesto clearly advocates and glorifies constant revolution and bloodletting with the same zeal with which some of us are asked to advocate and glorify the sacrament of abortion.
The end of armed struggle would put them all out of business. While politicians sit on their fences, counting their campaign donations, the hate merchants’ influence, regrettably, grows stronger every day. Already, it has acquired sufficient clout to overrule any chance for peace that a clear majority, living in any one of the various global trouble spots, might dare to hope for.
The day will come when Obama’s name will be synonymous with Mao, Pot, Stalin, Castro or anyone else on the left side of the ledger you care to mention, for the pendulum is bound to swing back. On that day Tibet will be free, as will the good people of N. Korea and Iran… for tyranny can never be more than transient.
Marxism and religion are diametrically opposed as religion consistently and paradoxically imbues the weakest link – children and the aged – with (divine) power, while shunning coercion that benefits only the few who manage to hide the stain of corruption behind a curtain of deceit.