[lbo-talk] Noticed an oddity

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Sun Mar 23 15:09:08 PDT 2008


On Sunday 23 March 2008 17:10:37 Chris Doss wrote:


> Personally, I know almost nothing about Tibet, so for
> me to comment on it would be a waste of time.
>
> --- Sandy Harris <sandyinchina at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > One thing I find amusing. Some Westerners criticize
> > Iran as "medieval" or "theocratic", and seem to think
> > that justifies various measures against them. Where
> > would that lead if applied to the Dalai Lama?

I admire Chris' reticence about a subject on which I am surely much more ignorant than he professes to be. But Sandy's point is still a good one. Few of us know much about Iran either, but did that stop us? It did not.



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