Dalai Lama as Tibetan version of Bin Laden

Is Dalai Lama a liberal democrat or despotic theocrat? Michael Backman knows something irrefutably factual enough about the evergreen darling of Western rightwing for him to commit his information and observations to writing in a mainstream and leading newspaper in Australia last year. Contextualised within the historical background of the Cold War in Asia in the 1950s and 1960s, the Dalai Lama was CIA's Tibetan version of Osama bin Laden in 1979-1989 but, while Osama has turned against the his former ally and paymaster, the Dalai Lama is now being refurbished and widely advertised as an universal icon of "mercy and compassion".