Doomed to relive it.

Submitted by Howard E. Cook (United States), Aug 10, 2005 at 03:32

At Tours, Vienna, on the peaks of the Pyenees, the West refused to give ground.

Those who do not know history, said Santayana, are doomed to relive it.

"they will learn no lessons."
"they will demand further Israeli withdrawals"

Who, pray tell, has "learned no lessons"?

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