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To: Dr. Id who wrote (131495)	5/5/2004 10:46:35 AM
From: Sig	Respond to of 281500

<<What is that old bromide...those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it? >>> Those who read history are doomed to preconceived notions that any vaguely similar operation today will produce the same result despite enormous changes in technology, economic circumstances, knowledge, and personalities. History has great value, but requires extrapolation into extremely different conditions and therefore becomes guesswork. Sig

To: Dr. Id who wrote (131495)	5/5/2004 1:51:29 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I suppose you're still waiting for the dominoes to fall in Southeast Asia too... And I suppose you believe that the Thai "domino" stayed up all by itself... Here are some human skulls, courtesy of Pol Pot and his killing fields, and sponsored by the "Dominoe effect": terragalleria.com Of course, you probably believed that Laos and Cambodia were never under the control of the marxists/maoists.. What is that old bromide...those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it? Or people like yourself who might read history as if they were reading a work of fiction... Hawk