History Well Understood

One of the best explanations for the need to understand history has just surfaced on a website that is in many ways surprising, an Iraqi blog, "The Mesopotamian." Someone who couldn't have spoken freely 18 months ago has neatly summed up something that philosophers and historians have attempted since the beginning of time. That is progress.

Read it here. The permalink isn't working at the moment, I will fix it when it is.