Tibet/Nepal: Same Thing
Joshua Foust on Apr 14 2008 at 2:27 pm | Filed under: Foreign affairs
Neither George Snuffalufagus nor National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley seemed capable of distinguishing between Tibet and Nepal this weekend. Given that one is a Buddhist monarchy democratizing in fits and starts with a Maoist insurgency gaining a permanent foothold, and another one is a formerly Buddhist monarchy overrun five decades ago by Maoist foot soldiers… well that’s understandable. I guess.
Blake Hounshell suggests this is because Hadley was trying to run interference over Bush’s ambiguous plans to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympics. I’m a bit more cynical—to me this seems like par for the course. They’re all Asiatic, so who really cares anyway? Anyway, whatever reason you choose, it was pretty damned pathetic on both counts. These are experts?
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