Professor
Re No Clear Lessons (2000), I think there are very clear lessons of all kinds.
One cannlt safely insist on democracy in foreign and hostile areas. One cannot control safely foreign puppets once democracy is attempted or partially instituted there (The Egypt Fallacy), political and religious hostility is heightened rather than removed by globalized enlightened knowledge. The West will be blamed for everything that happens there regardless. We should never have given up proxy control there.
Here was Michael Howard on the subject:
Sir Michael Howard, Lessons Of History, "1945--End of an Era?":"Only one thing could have prolonged the existence of the European Empires---the continuing approval and support of the United States. It was the denial of that support that spelled the end of the old European Empires. The citizens of the United States had not joined in the Second World War to prop up a system of imperial domination against which they had been the first people to revolt. And it has been with genuine bewilderment that they find themselves today so generally reviled as its inheritor....."
All the best
i MADE AN ERROR RE THE YEAR OF DK'S ARTICLE CITED ABOVE. IT WAS 2002 OR SO.
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