Happy 2007.  I was on the WDEV Mark Johnson show to talk about FireWife.  My interviewer, Ken Squier, the owner of Radio Vermont, asked me in the end: How would a Buddhist leader solve the Middle East crisis?  Sweet Buddha!  I said.  No, I didn’t say that.  I managed only to raise both my eyebrows (for the degree of difficulty) and muttered something like “Buddhists are not evangelical by nature.”  And I was officially and hopelessly tongue-tied.  Thank Buddha, I was off air by then.  But I have since been occupied by the question.  This is a call to all Buddhists in all degrees of enlightenment, please share your thought, please illuminate.  This is a humble call from a not so enlightened one.  Thank you.  And, how would the Dalai Lama answer the question?