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To: zonder who wrote (70595)	9/18/2003 8:36:23 AM
From: Fred Levine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

From the NY Times: Dalai Lama Says Terror May Need a Violent Reply By LAURIE GOODSTEIN he Dalai Lama, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and one of the world's most prominent advocates of nonviolence, said in an interview yesterday that it might be necessary to fight terrorists with violence, and that it was "too early to say" whether the war in Iraq was a mistake. "I feel only history will tell," he said. "Terrorism is the worst kind of violence, so we have to check it, we have to take countermeasures." fred

To: zonder who wrote (70595)	9/18/2003 9:26:34 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

I do think Chirac would have reluctantly supported the US if they had taken the right action, but I suspect he was far happier to annoy them AND be on the side of law and common sense... But I don't suspect the French of taking their stance for financial gain. This is the paranoid delusion of a few US xenophobic warmongers, plainly not rooted in reality... they could easily have checked and found the actual figures for French trade with 1) US 2) Iraq (even without sanctions never mind with) and decide where the French stood to gain financially.