Archive for the ‘History’ Category
Great idea
The residence of Voinesti, a Romanian village, got it right:
Neculai Ivascu, 57, who had run the village of Voinesti since 1990, died from liver disease just after voting began on Sunday - but still won the election by a margin of 23 votes.
I think we should adopt this idea and make it a prerequisite to be dead before running for any public office. It would, the least, reduce the damage created by live officials…
Repeating history
John Stewart’s Interview with Brzezinski, which I linked to in the previous post, made me thinking about the lack of organizational wisdom in the way governments handling their strategy.
In particular I was wondering how a country that just recently , in historical terms, made Afghanistan a graveyard for the red army fail into the same trap in Iraq? How a country with the knowledge and experience of people like Kissinger , Brzezinski and many others repeat its recent mistakes from Vietnam, and repeat the mistakes of it opponent which it so skillfully exploited?
It is simply amazing how little countries learn, not only from other countries experience, but from their own. It is also clearly demonstrate the truth of this quote :"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Tags: Organizational Wisdom Strategy Repeating History USSR Iraq Vietnam Afghanistan
Voices from the past
A rare recording of Ha’tikva, the Israeli anthem, being sang at the liberation of the contestation camp Bergen-Belzen. I listened to it with tears in my eyes.
(Via this Israeli site )