As offensive as The Dictator can be, the scripted discomfort may be less offensive than Sacha Baron Cohen’s usual kind of comedy.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum welcomed Sir Ben Kingsley earlier this week to discuss “The Power of Film and the Holocaust.” While Kingsley has embraced a variety of memorable roles in the over 60 films of his career — like Gandhi, for which he won an Best Actor Oscar in 1982 — some of his most memorable and poignant characters were in films about the Holocaust.

For today’s Monument feature, we thought we’d do another installment in our Embassy Row series, which so far has included the Letelier/Moffitt memorial and statues honoring Ukrainian icon Taras Shevchenko and Czecho-Slovak president Tomas Masaryk. This time, though, we decided to ease off the obscure figures for a moment and talk about the Mahatma himself, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Now, is it really necessary for DCist to summarize his life and accomplishments? Of all the foreign…