2007-08 The History Boys

<hide> <let name=data index=Date>2007-08}}{{#vardefine:Topics|\George W. Bush\lessons from history\Bush administration hypocrisy\Harry Truman\David Halberstam}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Topics}}{{#vardefine:Topics.disp|\George W. Bush\lessons from history\Bush administration hypocrisy\Harry Truman\David Halberstam}}{{#vardefine:URL|http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070507A.shtml}}{{#vardefine:keylist%7C{{#var:keylist}}\URL}}{{#vardefine:URL.disp%7Chttp://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070507A.shtml}}{{#vardefine:Title%7CThe History Boys}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Title}}{{#vardefine:Title.disp|The History Boys}}{{#vardefine:Text|by David Halberstam (Halberstam was killed in a car wreck 2007-04-23, so this must have actually been written before that): “In the twilight of his presidency, George W. Bush and his inner circle have been feeding the press with historical parallels: he is Harry Truman - unpopular, besieged, yet ultimately to be vindicated - while Iraq under Saddam was Europe held by Hitler. To a serious student of the past, that's preposterous. Writing just before his untimely death, David Halberstam asserts that Bush's "history," like his war, is based on wishful thinking, arrogance, and a total disdain for the facts.”}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Text}}{{#vardefine:Text.disp|by David Halberstam (Halberstam was killed in a car wreck 2007-04-23, so this must have actually been written before that): “In the twilight of his presidency, George W. Bush and his inner circle have been feeding the press with historical parallels: he is Harry Truman - unpopular, besieged, yet ultimately to be vindicated - while Iraq under Saddam was Europe held by Hitler. To a serious student of the past, that's preposterous. Writing just before his untimely death, David Halberstam asserts that Bush's "history," like his war, is based on wishful thinking, arrogance, and a total disdain for the facts.”}} {{#xploop:{{#var:Topics}}||}} {{#xploop:{{#var:keylist}}|\n* $s$: \o#var:$s$.disp\c}}

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