"You have to ask yourself what interest we had 40 years ago for going to war in Vietnam. You’d think that in this country with so many smart people, that we can’t possibly do the same dumb thing again. I have this theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves."
Seymour Hersh, in an article about the break-up of Iraq.
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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” Aldous Huxley
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Did you see "Fog of War"? I don't believe anything has been learned, except not to vilify the troops themselves.
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