49 Martin Loh, Singapore08-04-09
It is amazing that a country that is stuck in a quagmire in Iraq from which there is no easy way out, and a credit crisis that threatens to throw thousands of American families on to the streets, the US still has the energy to champion the so-called cause of Tibetan freedom. In Singapore a public official like Nancy Pelosi would be properly reminded that the taxpayers are paying her to solve the problems of the country, not pontificate on foreign matters, of which I'm sure given the shortcomings of her American education, probably knows very little about. China will successfully integrate the Tibetans into mainstream national life. That much I am sure. And what is more - the lives of the Tibetans will be greatly improved. Nothing like the fate of the aborigines in Australia or the native Indians in America. When it comes to decimating indigenous people and their culture, the West remain unsurpassed.