As American legislators once again tackle the thorny issue of how much authority government should have to monitor communications, the U.S. interwar experience stands as a stark warning.
Our original sin was turning a blind eye to Saddam Hussein’s use of WMDs against his fellow Iraqis. And we’re still stumbling around in the dark, as Bashar Assad repeats a history that we would just as soon forget.
Public debate over the content of history textbooks goes back nearly 130 years, at least since the founding of the American Historical Association (AHA).
