glassgowkiss Posted March 11, 2008 Posted March 11, 2008 http://mounteverest.net/news.php?id=17097 sometimes it's hard to separate climbing and politics. looks like another "friendly gesture" of a "democratic" government Quote
ivan Posted March 11, 2008 Posted March 11, 2008 reminds me of lincoln's quote, saying that, if the USA were to become a country where we said "all men are created equal" but then made exceptions for women, blacks and catholics, that he'd rather "emigrate to some land where they make no pretense of loving liberty; to russia for example, where despotism can be had in its pure form, without the base alloy of hypocrisy" sounds like lincoln wouldn't have liked modern china as his getaway...but then he wasn't a climber. Quote
tomtom Posted March 12, 2008 Posted March 12, 2008 Umm, yeah. We need to protect our right to this. http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web08s/wfeature-high-crimes-kodas Speaking of Lincoln, would he have supported a Chinese invasion of Taiwan the same way he supported an invasion of the South to reunite the country? Quote
ivan Posted March 12, 2008 Posted March 12, 2008 Speaking of Lincoln, would he have supported a Chinese invasion of Taiwan the same way he supported an invasion of the South to reunite the country? really different cases right? if lincoln would be on any side in china it seems he'd favor taiwain, since they (the Kuomintang) were the prexisting government that was overthown by the rebels (the Communists). i imagine he'd find mao's egalatarism attractive, though clearly not his atheism. i suspect he'd be unhappy with either side, given the KMT's sham/corrupt democracy and both sides blatant hostility to human rights. Quote
Hugh Conway Posted March 14, 2008 Posted March 14, 2008 Protests of monks and ethnic Tibetans erupt in Lhasa http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120548761807136401.html Quote
Weekend_Climberz Posted March 14, 2008 Posted March 14, 2008 I wonder how far they will have to take it before other countries including ours start threatening them with pulling our athletes from the games. Quote
sobo Posted March 14, 2008 Posted March 14, 2008 I wonder how long it will be before they roll on Lhasa with tanks. Lhasa, the New Tiananmen Square... Quote
Hugh Conway Posted March 14, 2008 Posted March 14, 2008 I wonder how far they will have to take it before other countries including ours start threatening them with pulling our athletes from the games. In other news, Nepal closed Everest from May 1-10th Quote
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