[Buddha-l] Re: Buddhism & War

[Mike Austin]

In message <BAY111-F81E2DDD2D89AFD8DBF6CDD4230 at phx.gbl>, Barnaby Thieme 
<bathieme at hotmail.com> writes

>The Dalai Lama has said on several occassions that there are 
>circumstances in which violence may be unavoidable, but every 
>alternative should first be exhausted. The problem, he says, is that 
>the consequences of violence are highly unpredictable, and can create 
>cycles of reprisal that become intractable. Case in point: Iraq.

Not a good example, actually.  The consequences of bombing and invading 
were obvious to a large number of people (including myself) but not, it 
seems, to those in positions of power.

The consequences of violence are, for the most part, unpredictable. But 
a wasps nest is attacked,  the results are predictable to anyone with a 
grain of common sense.

-- 
Metta
Mike Austin