AMERICANS AND AMERICAN POLICY MAKERS ARE COMPLETELY AHISTORICAL...
WE SIMPLY DO NOT RESPECT THE LESSONS OF HISTORY...AND WE HAVE BEEN DOOMED TO REPEAT THE MISTAKES OF THE PAST...
THE ONLY THING THE AMERICAN ELITES ARE CONCERNED WITH IS HOW TO FUDGE THEIR NEXT QUARTERLY REPORT!
IF I WERE OBAMA I WOULD START A "DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY" TO LOOK AT THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF EACH NEW POLICY...
JUST LOOKING BACK AT THE FAILURES OF THE PAST WOULD AVOID MANY "MISTAKES."
OK...AN EXAMPLE...
BUSH AND THE NEOCONS INVASION OF IRAQ...
EVERY SUCCESSFUL INVADER IN THE PAST HAS KNOWN THAT YOU DO NOT...ABOLISH THE OLD ORDER WITHOUT HAVING AN INDIGENOUS NEW ORDER TO REPLACE IT...
WHEN THE TATARS INVADED MEDIEVEL RUSSIA...THEY USED THE LOCAL "GRAND DUKES" AS THEIR TAX COLLECTORS...AND THE LOCAL ELITES WERE GLAD TO OBLIGE AND KEEP THEIR TITLES AND THEIR LANDS.
WHEN TOPPLING SADDAM...AND ABOLISHING THE IRAQI ARMY...BUSH CAUSED HUGE PROBLEMS FROM HIMSELF...
IN ANCIENT TIMES...A MILITARY INVADER WHO DEPOSED A KING...ALWAYS PICKED A RELATIVE OF THAT KING TO BE THE "NEW RULER...."
YOU SIMPLY MUST PROVIDE THE PEOPLE WITH A SENSE OF CONTINUITY...
OTHERWISE YOU HAVE A MASSIVE REBELLION ON YOUR HANDS... JUST AS HAPPEN IN IRAQ.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE...
IN THE MIDDLE AGES COUNTRIES WERE ALWAYS WORRIED ABOUT THEIR "BALANCE OF TRADE"....THIS IS NOT SOME KIND OF NEW ECONOMIC THEORY...! REMEMBER IN THE OLD DAYS YOU HAD TO SETTLE UP PERIODICALLY IN HARD MONEY...GOLD COIN!
THE RUSSIAN CZARS FOLLOWED "THE COURSE OF THE RUBLE" CLOSELY...AND MAJOR DECISIONS WERE MADE BASED ON TRADE FACTORS... EVEN IN THE OLD STYLE RUSSIAN ECONOMY OF SERFS AND AUTOCRACY.
TRADE ISSUES HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR CENTURIES...AND THEY WERE THE CAUSE OF ALL THOSE "OBSOLETE" MEDIEVEL TARIFFS AND OTHER TRADE RESTRICTIONS THAT ECONOMIC HISTORY IS FILLED WITH...AND WHICH WE TODAY SCOFF AT!
YET THE US HAS ACTED "AS IF" IT'S TRADE DEFICIT JUST DOESN'T MATTER... IT DOES MATTER...A LOT!
COULD A "DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY" HAVE FOREWARNED US OF THE CATASTROPHES...WHICH ARE NOW UPON US...?
