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

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