(February 8, 2016 at 2:06 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(February 7, 2016 at 2:53 pm)Drich Wrote: Again, I'm just a student of history that is identifying a pattern that plays out ever so many generations in the United States. I see the pattern already in motion and to date has yet to disappoint in it's completion of the cycle.
This is why it's been said those who do not know History are doomed to repeat it. History is the record of human nature. In society we always think ourselves better than everyone else. (even the bad guys.) When this self righteousness takes over a society it allows for all sorts of evil justifications. When two large soceities develop this at the same time it always means the same thing. Genocide.
Now, 'the west' is one self righteous society. and the middle East is the other. Ask yourself will one adopt the 'evil' acts of the other? will either ever back down or will it escalate? And so goes the pattern.
I bristle at the suggestion I do not know history. I like to think I know rather more on the subject than you.
The first person who has to brag about their knowledge in something in something like this is generally the person most insecure of their standing in that field.
just saying...