Saunders - American Psyche [Catch-Up]

The article I have chosen for this blog is about China's "liberation" of Tibet. In this article, Saunders appears to express a view which is pretty different to that of the international community at the time. While I enjoyed reading all of Saunders' articles, I found this one to be particularly interesting.

I think that he is being very sarcastic in this article. When he says that "It would be a great tragedy if the sight of a few gentle monks bursting into uncontrollable tears of anguish caused us to abandon the Olympic ideal of international brotherhood." it appears to me that he resents the fact that even though all those people in Tibet died, hundreds of thousands of people will still flock to China and spend millions of dollars there.

He agrees that there is a time and a place for forgiving and forgetting, but in this case I believe that he is upset by the fact that the American people seem to be able to do so as easily as they have done.