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

Fri Sep 14 13:13:21 UTC 2001

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
> 