Here's a link to an interview between Karen Armstrong and Tavis Smiley. As Don, who passed this on to me, said in his email, "Interestingly, she makes many of the same points the Dalai Lama spoke of in the compassion portion of his teaching Saturday." Here is the link to the PBS interview (video).
By the way, Karen Armstrong's book "Buddha," blew me away. Highly recommended.
(Thanks, Don!)