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TagsTells students 'Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened'
BY TOM HESTER SR.
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
How rotten of an individual was Osama bin Laden, the Al Qaeda leader killed Sunday by Navy commandos?
Even the Dalai Lama suggests he had it coming.
In an appearance at the University of Southern California Tuesday, the Dalai Lama, 75, the leader of Tibetan Buddhism, said, according to the Los Angeles Times, that he attempts to practice compassion to such an extent that he tries to avoid swatting mosquitoes "when my mood is good and there is no danger of malaria," sometimes watching with interest as they swell with his blood.
Yet he appeared to suggest that the United States was justified in killing bin Laden.
As a human being, Bin Laden may have deserved compassion and even forgiveness, the Dalai Lama said in answer to a question about the assassination of the Al Qaeda leader,” The Times reported. But, he added, "Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. … If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures."
The 14th Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 as Chinese forces consolidated control over the country. He lives in India but travels frequently in support of the Tibetan cause.
