Have any of you guys seen the documentary-type movie “Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion”? Wow is it good. I thought it’d be some lame hippie “Free Tibet” crap but it was in fact great. I confess I don’t know much about Tibet specifically, but I do know that China is subverting the United States with the time-honored Communist strategy of “we will feign liberalization if you give us trade relations – which we will then use as a venue for espionage and active measures and generally trying to subvert you.”
The best way of short-circuiting that strategy is simply to Announce it to the Public. Meeting with the Dalai Lama is a way of sending a signal to China: we know what you are doing, and we intend to frustrate your purpose. The headstart they got under Clinton and the ambivalence of the Bush Administration will find a useful corrective in John McCain – as will our ridiculous current policy towards the Russians. I think Bush’s “look into Putin’s eyes” was just bullshit employed because our policy is to try diplomatic finesse with Russia. This was obviously a mistake, and one that John McCain, as a new administration, could rectify. At least as far as an American administration can fight against its own CIA, State Department, and political opposition, that is.
