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Iran and Historical Forgetting

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The best thing the citizens of the United States could do for the nation's future is find the courage to undertake a major historical reality check. It's not that the narrative information is not out there in volume after volume of respected history. It's that our "official story" is perennially sanitized and linked to forward-looking, blind power, which leads us to repeat the same power-hungry debacles over and over.

 

Humility is hard to achieve when people have been brainwashed into believing they are "exceptional" or "the chosen people" on this Earth. But that's the kind of hard work that's needed.

 

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I'm a 72-year-old American who served in Vietnam as a naive 19-year-old. From that moment on, I've been studying and re-thinking what US counter-insurgency war means. I live outside of Philadelphia, where I'm a writer, photographer and political (more...)
 

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