Bowing to China, President Obama won't meet with the Dalai Lama
while the Tibetan leader visits Washington. The Post
provides some historical background:
For the first time since 1991, the Tibetan spiritual leader
will visit Washington this week and not meet with the
president. Since 1991, he has been here 10 times. Most times
the meetings have been "drop-in" visits at the White House. The
last time he was here, in 2007, however, George W. Bush became
the first sitting president to meet with him publicly, at a
ceremony at the Capitol in which he awarded the Dalai Lama the
Congressional Gold Medal, Congress's highest civilian award.
While liberals pride themselves on being less bellicose and more
open-minded than conservatives, their moral relativism inevitably
leads to appeasement of totalitarian regimes and fear of taking a
stand for human rights.
