Have you ever been in a political or social debate with someone and they said to you; history tells us that if we do this then that will happen? Have you ever considered that maybe their knowledge of history is incorrect because the books that they studied or the history that they were thought and think they knew is incorrect?
In other words is all the history that we learned incorrect? For instance you may have been taught history one-way and someone else learned it another way; but are you correct or are they correct? I submit to you that there is another history and that neither they or you are correct. That is to day; anyone who says that they know history better than someone else is denying the fact that history is generally rewritten by the victors or those in charge at the time period in which it occurred.
If we are to use the quote that; those that fail to read or understand history are doomed to repeat it, then we must also the understand that most of all of the history that we use is incorrect and that is not the way it happened. As long as we understand that then we can be a much better judge of history by using common sense and studying the events that unfolded. It is your knowledge of history correct? Consider this in 2006.
