By: Neil H. Buchanan
I should state up front that this column can be added to the "failing to remember history, doomed to repeat it" file. There is nothing new, of course, to the admonition that it is important to understand history. Although that is indeed an old point, it nonetheless needs to be repeated again and again, because too many people forget. And because history inescapably gets longer, while attempts to rewrite it -- especially in this era of pathological lying from the Oval Office -- are part of an ongoing disinformation campaign, the specifics matter.
