Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it

[kellinator]

I just found this while picking up some articles for a prof:

"We did not recognize that neither our people nor our leaders are omniscient... We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our own image or as we choose."

-- Fmr. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, In Retrospect, a memoir of his involvement in the Vietnam War

Comments

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

History, like a greasy supreme pizza with extra green peppers, is doomed to repeat itself.

LOL

[pxlboy.livejournal.com]

yeah, i agree with both of those statements entirely. mmm..pizza...

McNamara quote

[scarcrest.livejournal.com]

If I get my column in a halfway coherent form for this weekend, this quote may just figure in there. Very serendipitous that you found it today...

Re: McNamara quote

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Glad to help. *curtsies*

Hey, can I be on the Tippitt Rambles list?

Re: McNamara quote

[scarcrest.livejournal.com]

Certainly... though I haven't posted anything there in months. I keep waiting for the librarian at work to hand me my clippings of last year's columns so I can type the ones I missed sending to my mailbox, but I keep not getting it. And then I never get around to posting anything new there.

Now that we're at war, it may take even longer.

One 16-hour day down. Who knows how many more to go. (My mantra used to be, "It's my time, but it's Dick's time-and-a-half." Now, it's just my time.)