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He may be a global icon of goodness, as Pico Iyer's biography reminds us. But is the Dalai Lama the political leader Tibet needs?
  • Salon or Thunderdome?

    Wars of revolution and identity and separatism are the same pretty much everywhere. A small group fighting a larger group using brutal indiscriminate guerilla tactics like carbombs, massacres and terrorism. The Tibetans if sufficiently motivated could commit acts of terrorism at the Olympics. There's nothing special about Tibet that precludes that other than their refusal to do so. So again I have to wonder why the leftists, who generally support this sort of thing actively push it off the table in this instance.