DALAI LAMA, LATEST VICTIM OF APPEASEMENT

It’s been 18 years since the last time the Dalai LamaDalai Lama visited the United States and not met with the sitting President. The 14th Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader was quietly brushed aside by President Obama apparently for fear of appearing too friendly with a nation that China has suppressed and brutalized over the years in their attempts to subjugate their cultural and religious beliefs.

Of course the spin from the WH and the MSM was a little different. While this is clearly another example of allowing another nation to violate the human rights of its people, the WH downplayed the missed opportunity as a way to get on China’s good side. A strange way to conduct diplomacy when it involves ignoring the strangle hold on 6 million Tibetans and the Draconian rules that they are subjected to. Anyway you slice it; his snubbing of the Dalai Lama can be filed under the heading of Appeasement.

The Dalai Lama can take some solace in the fact that that he has not been alone in this strange fixation by President Obama to be liked. In the 9 months since taking office, this President has made it a point of fact to go out of his way to try and repair the so called “damaged image of America created by George BushGeorge Bush”. A notion that this White House has been sensitive to and caused them at every opportunity to instinctively bow to every Dick & Harry that may have had a gripe with the way the US conducted it’s Foreign Policy under George Bush. This includes the Palestinians & Iranians who have resorted to violence and terrorism instead of diplomacy.

It is obvious that in this case, Barack ObamaBarack Obama did not want to upset or create any unnecessary controversy with China or it’s President, Hu Jintao before their meeting next month. We know that the President was sensitive to the fact that China has responded negatively to other leaders who have met with the Dalai Lama. After learning that French President Zarkozy had met with the Dalai Lama, China called off a major European Union Summit. It has also tried to pressure South Africa into denying the Dalai Lama a necessary visa to attend a peace conference in the country. So the last thing this president wants to do is have the Chinese get mad as us and demand that we pay back all the money we owe them. God knows we can’t pay it back.

There is no denying the fact that this was a clear show of disrespect to the Tibetan cause and the struggles of a people whose resolve can be buoyed by the symbolic gestures of support from world leaders such as Barack Obama. Once again when presented with an opportunity to lead and stand for freedom, Obama simply sells out.

This is the Barack Obama we have become accustomed to. In his short time in office, he has shown over & over that he is more willing to bow to the enemy instead of standing up to them for fear of not being “liked”. When Iran held it’s elections over the summer and the people protested against Mahmoud AhmadinejadMahmoud Ahmadinejad once they found out the results were rigged, Obama remained mysteriously silent. He ignored the pleas of protestors who wanted to hear the leader of the free world condemn the results. Instead,Obama stayed quiet and chose not to “meddle” in another countries business.

When Honduran President Zelaya was ousted by it’s people for trying to rewrite the Constitution in an attempt to keep himself in power for perpetuity, Obama sided with the Leftist President and cut-off aid to the country - one of the poorest nations in the world, until it’s power hungry President was put back in power. This even after learning that Zelaya’s regime was being backed by Venezuelan Dictator, Hugo ChavezHugo Chavez.

He has thumbed his nose at the Israeli’s continuously while at the same time allowed Iran to continue developing its Nuclear Weapons Program. He has suppressed intelligence information that Iran had other Nuclear facilities that were being used to develop materials for a Nuclear Bomb. He never said a word to Israel about these developments and if it were not for French President Nicolas Zarkozy who insisted on taking strong action against Iran, Obama would have remained silent.

So to the Dalai Lama, take a number. It is really nothing personal. We just need to get everyone of our enemies to like us first. They may not respect us, but they will like us.

Reference:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6262938/Barack-Obama-cancels-meeting-with-Dalai-Lama-to-keep-China-happy.html#

http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=dalai_drama