Posted on 08/31/2006 4:52:43 PM PDT by James Hartline
No - not that interested in him.
Would you also have been happy to hear about the Nazi, Kurt Waldheim, who worked to help torture our Jewish brothers, who became the head of the UN and when running for president in Schwarzenegger's European homeland, who Schwarzenegger not only campaigned for him, but he and his dear wife Maria have never renounced him for his involvement with the Nazis.
Ahem... is yours a question or a speech? You sound like a senator.
No, not that interested in him, either. But the Dalai Lama is a fascinating figure!
The guy that wrote this is ignorant. The Dalai Lama has no real authority over any Buddhist.
I don't care what his religion is.
But what I don't understand is why the liberal West is so easer to embrace a man who wishes to re-impose serfdom on the majority of "his" people. Between the current Chinese occupiers and the former monastic elites, the only people deserving support are the common Tibetan people.
There was never a system of serfdom in Tibet. They were an agrarian people in an extremely harsh climate and had little contact with the outside world by choice. Thusly they were poor by western standards. Standards based primarily on the acquisition of material wealth.
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