The sidebars about what the Dalai Lama is like, or who bought what for whom are all very interesting, I'm sure, if you have an agenda to pursue about what country x is doing to country y or something. As for Ron Paul, the first President of the US summed it up quite nicely when he was summing up his time in public service: As for whether the Dalai Lama owned slaves, or Saddam nationalized his own country's oilfields, or Israel or the Palestinians want to fight to the last man woman or child, who cares? That's their affair, not ours. Paul's vote against this idiotic resolution doesn't depend, obviously, on his opinion on any of that nonsense.