EACH GENERATION RE-TELLS THE OLD STORIES... YET AGAIN...
THERE IS REALLY VERY LITTLE NEW IN THE WORLD...
ALL HISTORY IS A REHASH OF THUCYDIDES...!
REALLY...IN THUCYDIDES....IT'S ALL IN THERE... NIXON, DUBYA, CLINTON, OBAMA...
IT WAS ALL SAID AND DONE 2000 YEARS AGO...ALL OF IT...EXACTLY AS NOW.
AND THAT IS ONLY FROM THE TIME HUMANS BEGAN TO WRITE THINGS DOWN CALLED-- "HISTORY"...
WHO KNOWS WHAT WAS SAID AROUND THE CAMPFIRES ON THE STEPPES OF ASIA...OR IN MESOPOTAMIA...AND HOW LONG AGO... PERHAPS 10,000 YEARS AGO.... CERTAINLY 5OOO YEARS...
EVEN EGYPT WAS A LATE COMER ... TO HISTORY.
I THINK THERE SHOULD BE A DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ESTABLISHED...TO ADVISE THE PRESIDENT...
NOTHING BIG...PERHAPS TEN OR TWENTY PEOPLE...WITH OFFICES IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS...ALL POURING OVER THE HISTORICAL RECORD FOR SIMILAR SITUATIONS AND COMMON ISSUES....
BECAUSE:
THIS IS TOO IMPORTANT TO BE LEFT TO MERE: "CASUAL READING"...
ESPECIALLY NOW, AS WE EXIT YET ANOTHER... "NEW ERA" OF SPECULATIVE BUBBLES...
AND EMBARK ON YET MORE IMPERIAL OCCUPATIONS...
