"Learning" from History

"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." –George Santayana

Those who never learned anything of the history get to repeat it flat-footed.

Someday the classified reports from the ’80s will be available, about how we (the US CIA and our ‘off-the-shelf enterprises’) created the Mujahadeen (sp?) by emptying MidEast jails, to play against the Russians.

But then, I also like “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” –Aldous Huxley