This Bill Moyers interview with Jon Stewart is very illuminating, on a lot of levels.

For one, he truly continues a level of self-depracation of what he does, that I find admirable.
Two, his general analysis, say, of the Gonzales administration, is very right on. 
Three, regarding Virginia Tech - near the end of this interview with Bill Moyers, there is a segment showing Stewart interviewing Allawi, and commenting on the fact that, in Iraq, there is a Virginia Tech massacre, "every day".  In that, this is similar to my thoughts on the subject.

Worth watching.

I haven't written anything on Virginia Tech.  The truth is, for, me, I've been, choosing, in a way, to hear about massacres for the last 4 years. 

I have an RSS feed for Iraq Coalition Casualities.  It brings all the updates to the "news" portion, on the right side.  (The feed is down below).

As such, for the past 4 years, I've gotten messages of new bombings, mass graves, etc, filling up my Reader, on a daily basis.

And actually, within a week, the number of casualties in Iraq were 10 times the number of people killed due to violence, than were killed in the VA Tech massacre.  And 11 american troops on Apirl 23rd.

Maybe I should stop receiving the feed?

I can't help but view this, as simply another tragedy, yes, horrible, and yes, deeply sad.  I can't make it "bigger" than tragedies that happen across the globe, or more meaningful than those either.

In this sense, it seems I am clearly in the minority.   Even in integral circles.   

Nevertheless, that is what is noticed, from this perspective, and this pair of eyes.

Actually, a link to another group which has cooperated with Al-Queda, but a lot of these  Pakistan/Afghanistan Islamic groups exchange people, information and resources.

Here is the article. Notable quote:

A three-tier security ring has been thrown around the 72-year-old Buddhist head, who lives at Dharamsala, in the Himalayan foothills, Indian police spokesman Prem Lal said.

All those approaching the exiled Tibetan chief will be closely watched by highly trained Tibetan security guards as well as heavily armed deployments of Indian police.

Visitors are being body-searched before being allowed to approach him.

This makes me incredibly sad, but it's part and parcel of the age.  

And then it brings up, of course, how non-violence may be an inappropriate response, to determined aggression.   We knew this of course, simply from China's extermination of the Tibetans as a separate people, over the last 50 years.

Thanks to Matthew Dallman for the link.

The National Review article, throughout, conflates priests practices Buddhism, with people who are primarily Buddhist, but acting out of nationalism - but the main point still remains that in certain situations, even practicing buddhist priets have responded to force, with force.