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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" George Santayana[/quote]

Those who have read Santayana's saying are condemned to repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it.[/quote]

Does it make it less true?  Absolutely not.
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It does become a replacement for actually thinking, though.[/quote]

Np. I see what you're saying. It can sometimes come off as a tired cliche if you use a certain phrase too much. However, I don't think it's that inappropriate. When the events of the Holocaust became widely known, the world at large "oh my god, how horrible, how could this happen, we'll never forget, we'll never let this happen again" etc. And yet the world community stood by in 94 and let nearly 1 million Rwandans be murdered in 90 days. UN peacekeepers were not allowed to intervene and some of the bodies and scenes of destruction were actually shown on news stations like CNN. There is NO WAY to pretend that we didn't know what was going on at the time. After the disaster in Somalia, it simply suited our president to pretend the massacre was a civil war rather than genocide.

Fortunately, the shame of standing by whole this happened caused Clinton to act in 98 with the Balkans. So I don't really think any lessons about the importance of learning from history are so unrelated to this topic.[/quote]

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