About time we internalized this lesson

Lutheran Journalist Uwe Siemon-Netto blogs on North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap's insight on the fatal flaw in the psychology of democracies when it comes to fighting long, drawn-out wars.

Giap parlayed this insight into victories over both France and the United States. He was one totalitarian who certainly had the number of the democracies. Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the other Islamofascists are counting on him being proven right once again today.

Like the man says: He who fails to learn from history is doomed to repeat it.

And repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it....