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History Lessons

What Bush should have learned from the Cold War

By Doug Ireland

How often have you heard something or someone dismissively referred to as “history”? In modern popular parlance, this honorable vocable means over with, finished, irrelevant. But American ignorance of history and contempt for its uses is far more dangerous today than Francis Fukuyama’s silly regurgitations about the end of it—particularly with a historically ignorant president in the White House. The problems… return to article

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