re: Don't you learn lessons from the recent past?
Vietnam????
The left said right from the start: you know when you start a war, but you cannot know when it's going to stop.
The US is now in Iraq and is thus responsible for everything that's going on there.
Before, that wasn't the case.
You pay the price for getting involved.
You pay the price for having chosen hard power rather than soft power.
Meanwhile, others like NK and Iran are taking advantage of this.
Raoul