I ran across this passage in a book1 recently:
The Marines were unable to suppress ________’s rebellion, and as months and years passed they began to despair of ever defeating him. In the United States the economy was collapsing into depression and the foreign military interventions was weakening
Eerily familiar somehow. Except that it was written in reference to events in the early 1930s when the U.S. invaded Nicaragua. But it works well in reference to Vietnam, Cuba in the ‘60s, Nicaragua again in the ‘80s… the list is rather long really.
What’s that bit about history and doomed to repeat?
Blood of Brothers, Life and War in Nicaragua by Stephen Kinzer. Highly recommended. ↩
This entry is what I call a "micro," short and sweet. It was posted 3 months ago.