Some Historical Perspective on Iraq, and "The Conventional Wisdom"

Check the sections on A. Lincoln, and also enjoy Epaminondas and the Spartans...whoa, how's THAT for historical perspective!....................T
"Thus they embraced the preemptive act of invading Sparta and freeing 250,000 Laconian and Messenian indentured serfs or helots ("those taken"). The preemptory invasion was aimed at bringing freedom and democracy to Greeks heretofore deemed less than fully Hellenic and thought incapable of self-governance..."
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