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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I'm not sure what the question is--is it, how have these lessons bee applied, or have they been applied successfully!? It doesn't matter, really, because the answer is the same--they haven't been applied at all; history does not repeat itself, but people do make the same mistakes despite the clear lessons that history offers us!. It people learned from history, then we wouldn't have some of the problems we do!.Www@QuestionHome@Com For this question I would go straight for Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order!. Among people who actually read, this is a very well-known book!. In it, Huntington argues that the modern world is divided into "seven or eight" distinct "civilizations" which are at odds with one another and always will be because they are of different cultures!. (He continuously equates the two!.) Now here's the history part: he uses history to justify how he divides the world!. Western Civilization shares, he says, a common history, so it is Western!. Orthodox/Muslim civilization shares a history, so it must also constitute a distinct civilization!. This, however, is wrong!. Huntington ignores the major conflicts that have occurred within civilizations, something a decent student of history wouldn't dream of doing!. We might find it easy to believe that France and Britain, for example, have always been busom buddies but the truth is very different!. What "lesson" can we talk about!? I suppose the lesson of US vs!. THEM!. Huntington wrote this book basically to set up and justify a conflict between the Muslim East and the Christian West!. Using his history, we can say that it is quite right and natural for the US and Britain to band together and beat the crap out of various Eastern oil-producing nations because that's what the West is SUPPOSED to do!. But does the "West" as he describes it really exist!? Is his history sound!? No!. So there, that's an answer!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The biggest lesson that is repeatedly ignored is that in war you have to defeat your enemy by eliminating their will to fight not just simply achieving tactical victory!. Faillure to do this results in treaties that our not honored and occupations that are wrought with violance and unrest!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |