random musings on intervention

love all the love the europeans and americans are showering on themselves for their actions on libya, remember when u all decided to welcome gadaffi with open arms after he pledged his soul to u, opened his markets for ur weapons and started sending oil ur way?
lets not forget the system has not changed and american military and economic interests have not been abandoned for the good of humanity
the ppl of yemen and bahrain have also faced harsh measures and yet even though stopping those atrocities might be easier than doing so in libya considering their military ties with the US, nothing is being done
so once again ur life is only worth protecting if the regime killing u is anti-american
solidarity with the oppressed of the world demands we are always critical and ask questions like why action in libya and not in other places? the war in the congo killed over 5 million ppl over 10 years yet no one scrambled to pass a resolution to protect civilians there and still there is no attempt to intervene and stop the killings and rapes there
the ppl in iraq, afghanistan, pakistan and palestine also wonder if the western interest in protecting civilians would extend to them?

china needs some lessons from israel

President Obama is planning to meet face to face with the Dalai Lama next week in spite of China urging him to withdraw his decision to meet with the Tibetan leader. It is interesting that the United States, which has a huge trade deficit with China (we import $27.9 million from them while exporting only $5.8 million) would be so willing to put this relationship at risk for the sake of human rights abuses in Tibet. Yet the United States would never dream of perhaps cutting the nearly $3 billion it sends annually over to Israel for the purpose of pressuring them to end their occupation of the Palestinians because of their "special relationship."

What China needs to do is get itself a Chinese style AIPAC. Although Chinese lobbying efforts have expanded over the past decade, it is still far less that the $15 million annual budget of AIPAC and far more friendlier. This Chinese lobby (ACPAC) needs to throw money at American Senators and Representatives, ruin the political careers of anyone who dares question Chinese policy and accuse all those who disagree with them as being anti-Chinese. And most importantly, make sure you gather enough Chinese American supporters whose main concern is the China issue and thus will make decisions about politicians based on nothing other than their support for China.

Trust me, not only will the Dalai Lama never again be invited to meet with a US president, but his reputation of a man of peace will be gone and the media will from now on be labeling him a troublemaker, violent and if ACPAC really does its job, a terrorist.