I'm with the Governor on this one: "It's best to let them handle their affairs, and let us handle those of the United States."

The AJC reports that today when Georgia opens an economic development office in China's capital city of Beijing, Gov. Perdue will not bring up the sensitive topic of Tibet.

"It's best to let them handle their affairs, and let us handle those of the United States," Perdue said.

Just as I think Bush's attempt at nation-building and establishing a democracy in Iraq has proved to be a destablizing disaster in the Middle East, I don't think America needs to return to the Carter years when Carter advocated a policy that held other countries to the highest moral standard possible.

This is going on now with respect to the Beijing Olympics and its opening ceremonies.

Personally, I have very unpleasant memories of Carter's promotion of a foreign policy that put human rights at the forefront, this leading to his call for and the resulting Unites States boycott of the 1980 lympics after Soviet tanks rolled into Afghanistan.