Posted by Dan Ewert : 5/07/2002 12:26:00 AM (Archive Link)
Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it. Not entirely true. Equally possible that those who do remember the past are doomed to repeat it as is evidenced by Yugoslavia and Israel. The parties involved in those conflicts remember the past all too well. In fact, their memories stretch back a thousand years or more of the same old scenarios being played out. What should be more properly said is that those who do not learn from the past and who cannot forgive it are doomed to repeat it.