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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Learn from 9/11?

There was a great article on NPR yesterday about 9/11--of course--and how we missed our moment and didn't seem to learn anything. (See link at bottom). But ike the French being in Vietnam, we learned nothing from them having been there before us. Then we went into Vietnam--and learned nothing. The Soviets in Afghanistan? We learned nothing. We've been there 10 years, we still know nothing. Same with 9/11. Learn from history? Heck, Americans don't even learn from current events. Link: http://www.npr.org/2011/09/10/140364367/after-sept-11-a-missed-opportunity-for-america?ft=1&f=1001
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3 comments:

Ernest Evans said...

Dear Mr. Kevin: No. we don't learn from history. We ignored the French experience in Vietnam--our attitude being "yeah, they lost, but they are the French, you know." Years later as we were contemplating the expected "cakewalk" of the Iraq War, we ignored the French experience in Algeria--again, the line was ""yeah,it was a disaster, but they are the French, you know." I think of a song from my youth with the famous line: "When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn??!!" Take care. Sincerely, Respectfully and In Christ, Ernest Evans

September 11, 2011 at 11:48 AM
Anonymous said...

heck you can't even spell McClanahan, how dumb is that?

real dumb.

September 11, 2011 at 12:21 PM
Mo Rage said...

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=gsis%2Ci18n%3Dtrue&cp=6&gs_id=l&xhr=t&q=mclanahan&qe=bWNsYW5h&qesig=HI5Ob-jryR5YefuggChzSQ&pkc=AFgZ2tm79uCxyK6pxM3-NEs0Z1LDKXD0I7pQWr5VJP8jJLEtl9ca13209wV27jHD15utZdY71Pwwfcb0UZ-7MLmCS3gbVz6BoQ&pf=p&sclient=psy&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=mclana&aq=0&aqi=g3g-s1g1&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=2958b13a5888e791&biw=1680&bih=935

you are one bitter old queen.

September 11, 2011 at 12:22 PM

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