Saturday, November 05, 2005

Hey Richard Gere ..... Put This in Your Pipe and Smoke It

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Dalai Lama endorses just wars
(but not in case of Tibet)

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Waging war for the cause of freedom can be justified but not in the case of Tibet's dream of autonomy from China, the Dalai Lama told an audience at a US university.

During the first of a two-day visit to Stanford University in the state of California, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader Tenzin Gyatso touched on topics ranging from television viewing to abortion, cloning and the idea of just wars.

The allied victory in World War II "saved Western civilization," and conflicts fought in Korea and Vietnam were honorable from a moral standpoint, the 14th Dalai Lama said in answer to questions.

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