Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it
Reading Dan Froomkin's excellent White House Watch (WaPo), I followed a link to this NYT op-ed piece:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/opinion/17meyer.html?_r=2&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&oref=login&oref=slogin
Here is a key quote:
'The “strategic alliance” that President Bush is proposing eerily resembles, in spirit and in letter, a failed 1930 treaty between Britain and Iraq that prompted a nationalist eruption in Baghdad . . .'
We knew the agreement our idiots-in-chief are pushing was heavy-handed and imperialistic, but I for one was not aware of the historical parallel. This piece is fascinating, and offers another blatant example of the tragic boneheadedness of Bush/Cheney and Co. I guess W's interest in history is limited to his daydreams about his glorious place in the textbooks of the year 2083.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/opinion/17meyer.html?_r=2&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&oref=login&oref=slogin
Here is a key quote:
'The “strategic alliance” that President Bush is proposing eerily resembles, in spirit and in letter, a failed 1930 treaty between Britain and Iraq that prompted a nationalist eruption in Baghdad . . .'
We knew the agreement our idiots-in-chief are pushing was heavy-handed and imperialistic, but I for one was not aware of the historical parallel. This piece is fascinating, and offers another blatant example of the tragic boneheadedness of Bush/Cheney and Co. I guess W's interest in history is limited to his daydreams about his glorious place in the textbooks of the year 2083.
