His Holiness the Dalai Lama Mouths Progressivist Claptrap
While I oppose Mr. Bush's War, this is just nonsense: Dalai Lama Tells U.S. Crowd War Outdated.

Such statements imply that war was once right, but that mankind has progressed to a certain stage of enlightenment where it no longer is. There are conditions under which war is just.

From Just War in the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

2309 The strict conditions for legitimate defense by military force require rigorous consideration. The gravity of such a decision makes it subject to rigorous conditions of moral legitimacy. At one and the same time:

- the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain;

- all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective;

- there must be serious prospects of success;

- the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. The power of modern means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition.

These are the traditional elements enumerated in what is called the "just war" doctrine. The evaluation of these conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good.

The Dalai Lama once again disappoints me. Had he said, "War is wrong," full-stop, I would have disagreed with but respected him.