"Was the world wrong to criticize the US? Absolutely."
Huh?
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
America lost its ability to take a moral stand on China's actions against Tibet when we invaded Iraq. We are the biggest of hypocrites. Our lost soul is the legacy of the Bush administration.
PaulG
· 1 year ago
It's just the American Government that lost its ability to take a moral stand, but then I'm not aware it was planning to take one. I think Bush is planning on going to Bejing.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
It goes around and around. No one holds the moral high ground. Speaking of the British and their slavery issues, however, let's not overlook the British support for the Confederacy during the American War Between the States.
Some British labor opposed using Confederate cotton, true, but there was strong support for cheap Confederate cotton as well. Be that as it may, nobody holds the moral high ground. Just as an aside, the Papal States were quick to recognize the Confederate States of America and to name a nuncio to the Confederate government. Their monasteries and churches in Louisiana, you see, owned an impressive number of slaves.
The wheel of life and karma continues to turn, one fine day the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, the next thing you know Hiroshima vaporizes, years go by, the Taliban destroy ancient statues of the Buddha, suddenly the World Trade Center implodes, and the U.S. government bombs Taliban, Iraq, and targets Iran while the Beijing government murders Himalayan Buddhist monks and nuns and demands obeisance to their pretense of Olympic Peace and sportsmanship.
It's a nasty whirl and nobody holds the moral high ground. Yamantaka is slow to smite the Beijing government, maybe Zeus and Hera will be a little faster on the draw.
TampaZeke
· 1 year ago
Chris, I think you meant to say "Absolutely NOT!"
TampaZeke
· 1 year ago
or, alternately:
"Was the world RIGHT to criticise the US? Absolutely."
wmforr
· 1 year ago
" the rest of the world all criticized the US and rightly so. Was the world wrong to criticize the US? Absolutely."
Chris: I think this is a typo. You mean either "Was the world right?" or "Absolutely not." (But not both :-) )
Mike_G
· 1 year ago
Repigs dream of a North Korean-style social conformity regime, where every adult wears a lapel pin or is denounced and ostracised. They've already got the authoritarianism, militarism, warrantless spying, torture and nepotism part down.
During the apartheid years, the rest of the world viewed apartheid as morally repugnant and led boycotts against the former regime.
Except for Oily Dick Cheney, who voted for the apartheid regime to keep Mandela in jail.
Chris, Why not do some research about how the whole Free Tibet movement got started in the first place? This is public knowledge; it's even on Wikipedia. You'll discover it began with CIA involvement in the early 1950s, right after the Dali Lama signed the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, which gave Tibet independent autonomy, with the new Communist Chinese government. The CIA recruited, funded, armed, and trained (in the Colorado Rockies!!) the Tibetan "liberation" forces. The fighting began in 1956, leading to the Dala Lama fleeing his country, his people, and the mess he created in 1959. It was (and still is?) the CIA that funded the Dali Lama's government in exile.
It's reasonable to conclude that the Free Tibet movement is a CIA operation, and the Dali Lama is a CIA asset. Look at the timing of the Tibetan demonstrations - while all the top Chinese leaders are in Beijing for the National People's Congress, held every 5 years, and just before the Olympic torch began it's global trip. I'm not justifying how the Chinese government reacted to the most recent flare-up of Free Tibet because there is no justification, but Americans have no moral voice in this issue. None.
jungle
· 1 year ago
I think this sentence is wrong in your post....
Was the world wrong to criticize the US? Absolutely.
Don't you mean 'Was the world RIGHT' or 'Absolutely NOT' or any other combinations which mean free speech.
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Huh?
Some British labor opposed using Confederate cotton, true, but there was strong support for cheap Confederate cotton as well. Be that as it may, nobody holds the moral high ground. Just as an aside, the Papal States were quick to recognize the Confederate States of America and to name a nuncio to the Confederate government. Their monasteries and churches in Louisiana, you see, owned an impressive number of slaves.
The wheel of life and karma continues to turn, one fine day the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, the next thing you know Hiroshima vaporizes, years go by, the Taliban destroy ancient statues of the Buddha, suddenly the World Trade Center implodes, and the U.S. government bombs Taliban, Iraq, and targets Iran while the Beijing government murders Himalayan Buddhist monks and nuns and demands obeisance to their pretense of Olympic Peace and sportsmanship.
It's a nasty whirl and nobody holds the moral high ground. Yamantaka is slow to smite the Beijing government, maybe Zeus and Hera will be a little faster on the draw.
"Was the world RIGHT to criticise the US? Absolutely."
Chris: I think this is a typo. You mean either "Was the world right?" or "Absolutely not." (But not both :-) )
They've already got the authoritarianism, militarism, warrantless spying, torture and nepotism part down.
During the apartheid years, the rest of the world viewed apartheid as morally repugnant and led boycotts against the former regime.
Except for Oily Dick Cheney, who voted for the apartheid regime to keep Mandela in jail.
anti French protests in Wuhan
It's reasonable to conclude that the Free Tibet movement is a CIA operation, and the Dali Lama is a CIA asset. Look at the timing of the Tibetan demonstrations - while all the top Chinese leaders are in Beijing for the National People's Congress, held every 5 years, and just before the Olympic torch began it's global trip. I'm not justifying how the Chinese government reacted to the most recent flare-up of Free Tibet because there is no justification, but Americans have no moral voice in this issue. None.
Was the world wrong to criticize the US? Absolutely.
Don't you mean 'Was the world RIGHT' or 'Absolutely NOT' or any other combinations which mean free speech.