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Article: The Dalai Lama is no Gandhi.(Column)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- October 10, 2003
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If you've ever had suspicions that the Dalai Lama is a lightweight, suspect no more. He is.
Recently finishing a U.S. lecture tour that attracted rock-concert crowds in major cities, the 68-year-old Tibetan Buddhist came up against a pesky New York Times reporter who asked questions about terrorism and the war in Iraq. In a story headlined "Dalai Lama Says Terror May Need a Violent Reply," the monk said: "Terrorism is the worst kind of violence, so we have to check it, we have to take countermeasures."
Soothing words to the Bush war makers as they seek $87 billion for countermeasures to bolster earlier countermeasures that failed. No amount of Buddhist ...