[QUOTE=glee]
As somebody once said “Those who do not learn the lessons of history are condemned to repeat them”
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[QUOTE=Gangster Octopus]
As an aside, I have always thought (well not always) that WWI has gotten short shrift in terms of importnat events, eclipsed by WWII. Of course WWII had the comic book villian Nazis, the atomic bomb, lots of movies etc. But the modern world was forged during WWI, including modern nations of Europe, the advent of air warfare, chemical warfare, the machine gun, etc. The incredible class system that infiltrated most notably the British military started to break down.
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And WWI also signaled the beginning of the end of the European world-hegemony that had lasted since 1492.
So, at least there was a silver lining, ehe? 
-XT
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
You’d think we would have learned a lesson about that kind of thinking . . .
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What “we” are we refering to here?