Re: Yes it's off topic but who cares right now.

["M. David Leonard" <mdl () equinox shaysnet com>]

Randy-

        I find it increasingly difficult to maintain any tolerance of 
total intolerance.  I _want_ to learn to live with 'others' unless they 
simply want me dead.  I cannot and will not tolerate intolerant and 
fanatical 'true believers.'  In that direction lies death.


                                        David Leonard
                                        ShaysNet


On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Randy Bush wrote:

> so, if we did not learn enough following the french into indochina, we can
> learn more by following the russians into afghanastan?  this does not seem
> like a sucess path to me.
>
> the successful part of our culture is about tolerance and learning to live
> with folk different than we (for many values of 'we' and 'different').
>
> resist the cycle of violence and hate.
>
> randy