I find history interesting because in an uncertain complicated world the results of our actions are often unclear in the present. Present biases are replaced with results that are slightly but not totally clearer, and less subject to the spin of current office seekers.

The victory of WW II erased the memory of early disasters, the discovery of the concentration camps dissolved the doubters of our moral purpose like Henry Ford (he had a fatal stroke when he viewed footage of the camps.)
In ten years our Iraqi incursion may be seen as a positive turning point in the middle east and the intense controversies over the war may become distant whispers.
Likewise the pretense of humanitarianism used to justify Clinton’ s military action in Kosovo may become even more fraudulent than the WMD’s in Iraq.
History becomes interesting when politics become distant.
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