On Mar 17, 7:41 pm, "jonathan" wrote:
The largest protests in twenty years in Tibet are spreading
outside Tibet.

Tibet Protests Widen

http://www.miamiherald.com/519/story/459380.html

In two weeks, in of all places Tibet, the Olympic Torch relay begins
it's long journey across China to the Olympic stadium.

Will the Chinese army and police have enough troops to
put out all the fires the Torch is bound to light?

Given what has been happening, here's what I think the response of the
U.S. government should be, if the option is indeed still available.

Since foreign reporters have been expelled from Tibet - well, don't we
assume a bank robbery is in progress when the closed-circuit cameras
go out in a bank, and send the police?

So launch a pre-emptive strike against China's nuclear capability, and
then perform regime change.

If it turns out that it was just repression as usual, and not
genocide, well, the world is a better place without the Beijing
regime, just like it is without Saddam Hussein, and so that need not
distress us any more than the lack of WMDs in Iraq does.

Of course, it may already be too late. In which case, we will have
another Cold War; once again, nuclear weapons in the hands of tyrants
will force us to sit idly by while horrors like Hungary in 1956 and
Czechoslovakia in 1968 happen again.

John Savard