Iran unfortunately is as scary as the bushies said Iraq was. I really hope that Barack can hold to talks and negotiations. The media is so unfair and always calls the Democrats namby-pandy, Bambi and babe-in-the-woods when they say use diplomacy. I mean right now the condi and company are sitting down with Iran in Geneva this Saturday and that's okay. The Dalai Lama was just in Madison for six days and I always feel so inspired when I see him. His ideas of inner peace and compassion and harmony remind me of Barack. I think all will be okay if Barack acts like the Dalai Lama.
I'm trying to hold to what the Dalai Lama said but Ahmadinejad is one scary guy. He's like the Joker, he's out of control. I know that Iran is an old and beautiful civilization but they're the ones behind Hamas and Hezbollah. I remember standing in my garden listening to reports of the missiles being fired from Lebanon in northern Israel. I hope they are sincere when they say they just want to build nuclear reactors, but when I see Ahmadinejad talking to Brian Williams I just think of that other villian in The Dark Knight-the one Aaron Eckhart becomes. One face is fine and sayng the right stuff, but the other face is grotesque and capable on unspeakable evil. I mean Ahmadinejad and say oh we just want nuclear energy for peaceful purposes but India and Pakistan made the same promises before they developed nuclear weapons. And on top of it all this guy's a Holocaust denier, saying it's a "myth", having a conference of Holocaust deniers. He should see the scars on my grandfather's legs from what Dr. Mengele did to him. Salman Rushdie was at Borders and it's hard to imagine that a fatwa was issued by Iran against him.
This is the seveth year the Dalai Lama's come to Madison. It's always a little strange to see the monks at Walgreen's. I went to the Alliant Center to see him. There were 12,000 people there. It reminded me of the reception that Barack got in Berlin. Of course he spoke before 200,000 people. German friends of mine who were there said it was even better than the Love Parade. We were talking on the phone and I saying how wonderful the Dalai Lama is and this friend said that Obama reminded him of Nietzche's superman or ubermensch. He said that Nietzche meant the ubermensch to be the embodiment of the highest possibility of man which just like what the Dalai Lama was saying. Of course it all got distorted into the idea of eugenics and that of course laid to the idea of inferious races and racial purity.
What is it with racial cleansing? Why does this keep happening. My boyfriend from Kosovo said right before they were invaded the whole country was consumed with watching some nighttime soap. I don't remember the name, but it was all anyone could talk about. He said everyone knew what was coming and they were so paralyzed with fear, so helpless in the face of this terrible evil that they just retreated into la-la land. I really wish never again was true.