It Is Not Enough

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How to make it clear? How to understand that we make the same mistakes, for the same reasons? That knowing history is not the same thing as learning from it? If that were enough, all one would have to do is say, "The attacks of 9/11 are this century's Pearl Harbor. Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and Bagram are this century's Japanese interment camps."

But that is not enough. We think we are smarter, wiser, more humane.

History does not repeat itself; we do.