What we learn from studying history is that nobody apparently ever learns anything from history...
Exhibit A: Obamanon in Afghanistan is a repeat of Dubya in Iraq, which is a repeat of LBJ in
Vietnam...so on and so forth...(There is no such thing as successful counterinsurgency)
Exhibit B: Speculative bubbles in deregulated market economies always end well for everybody...
The economy of the 1990s and 2000s is a repeat of the economy of the 1920s, which is
a repeat of the entire nineteenth century...
Is it just that hubris/greed/machismo is invincibly allergic to common sense?
