Circum Spective

doomed to repeat it

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it ... and American political leaders seem to have already forgotten something that happened as recently as 1979: the Soviet Union gave up trying to conquer/occupy Afghanistan.

KABUL (AP) -- The Taliban's reclusive leader said in a Muslim holiday message Saturday that the U.S. and NATO should study Afghanistan's long history of war, in a pointed reminder that foreign forces have had limited military success in the country.

If I'm not mistaken, I expressed this very point recently to my wife.