[Jack Black]

Talk about hopeless causes. China will leave Tibet when hell freezes over, and not one day before. People who want to hire other people to do their fighting for them to keep their hands clean (for religious reasons) need to go study both law and philosophy. That's absurd.

The Chinese have certainly trashed things in Tibet, but were able to in part because the Tibetan leadership was running a 10th century style country. However the Tibetan culture seems to be doing OK. It is certainly much better known in the world now than in 1940. Tibetan religion is flourishing. Every large US city has dozens of Tibetan Buddhist temples and teachers. And there is no ongoing genocide of Tibetans. In fact I believe they are excluded from the "one chid" policy of the rest of China.

None of this is to excuse Chinese impearialism, but it's not a Russia / Chechnya type of situation and no one but an idiot would want to turn it into one.

[swarthyguy]

Fine, condemn the Tibetans to living under the brutal yoke of the Chinese.

Do you also feel the liberation of Easter Europe and the Baltic states was a mistake. In the 1950', 60's and 70's and even the 80's, imagining Poland, HUngary, the Czechs as free from Soviet domination would be crazy too.

Lots of Eastern Europeans built thriving communities in the US; was that reason enough to not overthrow the Soviets.

NO ONGOING GENOCIDE IN TIBET----HAHAHAH - that's because the genocide has been done and huge levels of Han immigration are making the Tibetans a minority in their own country.

Nice to see such support for the Butchers of Beijing on a conservative(???) web site.

Peachy.