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To: one_less who wrote (233999)	6/22/2007 11:58:57 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Studying history to avoid repeating past mistakes has become a cliche. Most of the time it seems to me we learn the wrong lessons or try to apply the correct lessons to a differnt opponent under very different circumstances. Wasnt the appeasement lesson used over and over against to justify iraq. Probably grossly overused. But for iran, it may be perfect. Similar challenges in the same part of the world but you might get different policies. Even look at bush with axis of evil. NK we negotiate with, iran we dont know yet and iraq we went to war. Why, because iraq was seen as easy and NK could have been a disaster for our allies like japan.