AN OBIT … AMERICAN DERRING DO, A YANK AMERICANS MOST LIKELY NEVER HEARD OF.

 

1. Osman Bator, the anti-Communist Kazakh leader of Chinese Turkestan

   drove out of Urumqi in a Jeep

   Boy, if that doesn’t make you get out your atlas, nothing will. Mongolians, Turks, Kazakhs: I guess you could say they’re all Steppe-children of northern China. hur hur.

   Follow the link and read the rest of the story:
   

   after three days, the two men realised that the three round balls in a sack on a camel in front were the heads of their dead companions.

   Then spend 2 minutes looking up Ulan Bator and the Mad Baron, and realize that the Mongolians, deitized spiritual tyrannical leader notwithstanding, were avid Communists from the get-go.

   By the time Bessac handed the Tibetans’ request to Secretary of State Dean Acheson in Washington, however, the Chinese had invaded.

   Yeah ... putting your agents on camels in the age of the airplane and telephone is not the smartest move. And there’s always the fact/contention that Acheson was himself a Commie, or at least a Commie Enabler, and that his deliberate timely inactions allowed Mao to take over. (See McCarthy and Coulter, et al.) Which lead almost directly to the Korean War a few years later, and then Vietnam a decade after that, and then Pol Pot after that. Also the ChiCom invasion of Tibet. Millions dead. None of that ever would have happened if Mao hadn’t won. Shows you the kind of damage one Progressive can do if they’re in a power position at the right time.

   Posted by Drew458       12/22/2010  at  11:39 AM  



2. Wish the Telegraph had published an on line map like the one in their hard copy.
   It was quite a trek.

   Posted by peiper       12/23/2010  at  09:05 AM  

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