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Title: | to judah #42 - stop blinding yourself (1) | |||
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| Name: | zeev | | |||
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| City: | Beer-Sheva | State: | Israel | | |
| "Quotations from dead men who did not know what is happening today" (judah) Barbara W. Tuchman is with us no more, since 1989. And a full lot of people are still quoting and learning from her. You should too. Even if she didn`t know what is happening today. "The historian Barbara Tuchman began her book The March of Folly in these words: `A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.` [...] How, she asked, coming closer to the present day, could the US refuse for so long to see that its goals in Vietnam were unattainable and the consequences damaging for American society and for its global reputation?" www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/mar/29/iraq.foreignpolicy |
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