Hypocritical Mass

Why has it taken the Olympics to bring the suffering of the Tibetan people so sharply into focus?
In the great scope of things, does Tibet differ from all the countries that have land occupied illegally by Israel?
It cant be denied that the behaviour of the Chinese gorvernment is appalling, but isnt it hypocritical of foreign sympathisers of the monks in Tibet, to demand world intervention in Chinese policies, whilst condemning intervention in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan?
The reaction worldwide to the situation there raises many questions and also highlights this hypocracy nicely.
If its not alright for anti-Iraq, anti Israel & G8 protesters to riot, why is it alright for Tibetan Monks?
If China asked the UN to send an envoy to the United States to plead for the freedom of Guantanamo Bay inmates, what would the response from Washington be?
Who are America and Britain to criticise the human rights record of other countries whilst blithely colluding in carrying out the conveniently forgotten 'extraordinary rendition' project.
Up is Down, Black is White, and nothing is what it seems…………
It must all come down to resources - which country has what mineral, which pipeline goes across who’s borders.
We measure human suffering and whether to do anything about it, by what’s in it for us. We have become experts in human bean-counting. The issue of Tibet scores brownie points for British M.P.'s, Burma has gas, Iraq has oil - Therefore if the people's of these countries want to revolt, we will help them.
Countries that have nothing or, have things we can do without (Zimbabwe) we will forget about or, at most, introduce a few meaningless sanctions to keep the more vocal critics happy. And so it goes on.
I think it was Orwell who said, 'in a time of universal deceit, one man speaking the truth is an act of revolution'? Presumably though, that is as long as 'one man' is speaking the truth about a government we don’t like - if he isn’t, he wont be heard.