Jim Webb: “I am greatly disappointed that no Buddhist Monks or members of Burma's democracy movement were invited to testify in…”

It is all about the beer.

So if Tiananmen occurred today with the Chinese Government rolling out tanks and killing hundreds, if not thousands, of its own people, that it would also fit the Panetta rule.

I agree. Well, let me ask Ms. Burkhalter because I am over my clock here.

If the government is so repressive that it deliberately kills its own people--that is the standard where you say that government no longer has validity--then it does not matter how powerful that government is.