Quote of the Day I

David Shribman, who writes for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in an article for RealClearPolitics about learning foreign policy lessons:

We have learned in the past three-quarters of a century to be wary of appeasement (the lesson of Munich) and to be wary of quagmires (the lesson of Vietnam) but not the more important lesson, which is to be wary of lessons.

His point, a good one, is for us to avoid drawing false comparisons between where we are now and problems we had in the past.