theglobeandmail.com — When historian Giles MacDonogh submitted the 600-page manuscript for his book After the Reich this year, he thought that he had written a comprehensive history of Germany in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Instead, he has realized in recent weeks that what he has written is a book about Iraq.
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gbudavidNov 10, 2007
History Sometimes Repeats itself A wise man Learns From his mistakes. A really wise man Learns from other people's mistakes.
wildhoneyNov 10, 2007Submitter
Or put another way... The most important lesson of history is that nobody ever learns history's lesson.
reikimanNov 10, 2007
One of the themes in "Battlestar Galactica" is 'This has all happened before, and will happen again'... Every time I hear that on the show it makes me think of what's happening in Iraq.