I need a few examples of how America Hasnt learned from the past.?

Question

I need to write an essay on how America has messed up, and repeated their mistakes again. I just need a few ideas, and i can work from that.

Answer 1

i would say vietnam and iraq
we had no reson for visiting either

Answer 2

Iraq

Answer 3

We re-elected George Bush. (lol)
I can't think of anything that America has re-done
again. We always seem to find new things to
mess up.

Answer 4

um well...there's never been an end to stopping war, poverty, and violence even though we see it's destruction time and time again while knowing there really are ways to prevent it. but i think no matter how much we learn (or try not to learn) its more a matter of actually wanting to change.

hope those topics help, good luck!

Answer 5

And people think our education system is liberal. LOL

Write about the failure of the education system run by liberals. The more we spend on education the worse education gets.

America should learn from its mistakes and blow up public education!

-Aztec276

Answer 6

George Bush got reelected president.

Answer 7

We elected bill clinton, reelected him, and now are considering to elect Hillary

Answer 8

To all: Author unknown. A good story for not only for many Democrats who amazingly cannot see they are socialists, but also for the self-deluding Republicans who cannot see they aren't much differant than Democrats, in the end. The programs of both "would work, if only we had a little more of your money and you surrendered a little more of your sovereignty" to the sucking maw of federalist power.



Several years ago I was supervising a beginning teacher in a city school system. One day during our end-of-the-day feedback conference, the young man gave a facial grimace and began to rub his back. I asked him if he had strained his back in the school lab.

After a long period of silence, he sat down at his desk and explained that he had immigrated to the United States because of political problems in his native country. The discomfort in his back was caused by a bullet wound he had received while fighting the Communists who were trying to take over his country's government. He was then a member of the underground nationalist force.

Then he asked me a surprising question: "Dr. Hedges, do you know how to catch a wild hog?" The question was completely out of context regarding the day's classroom and lab teaching. I replied, "I'm not sure what you are talking about. Tell me."

"First," he said, "you find out where the wild hogs are roaming and feeding and then you put some corn out in the field. Soon they will come to eat the corn. You keep putting out the free corn. More wild hogs keep coming to eat the corn."

"So what?" I said. "That's normal for any animal."

" He said. "After the hogs get used to your free corn, you put up a length of fence along one side of the feeding area. The hogs get used to it. You keep giving them the corn. Then you put up another section of fence at right angles to the first. You keep giving them the corn. The hogs get used to the second fence. Then you put up another length of fence at right angles to the second section. You now have a U-shaped fenced area. The hogs get used to that section of the fence. You keep giving them free corn. Then you put another section of fence with a gate in it, making a closed area except for the gate. You keep giving them corn. Now, the hogs no longer are out in the fields, working to find their own food. They keep coming into the area to eat the free corn. They get used to the fenced area with the open gate. Then, one day you slam shut the gate when the hogs are inside the fenced area. The wild hogs are caught - they are your prisoners."

I understood then that the wild hogs were really the people of his native country and that the free corn was the enticements that the Communists were giving to the people.

"That's correct," the young man said. "Now, the hogs will not get anything to eat unless you give them food. You are in control. They depend on you to feed them, or they will starve. They can't get out into the fields and forests anymore to find their own food. They have probably forgotten how, as it is. They are your servants, your prisoners. They must obey you. Or else they starve.

"The hogs," he said, "were so accustomed to having the free corn, that they ignored the building of the fences that would eventually trap them. When the gate slammed shut, it was too late for them to realize what they had been blind to. The free corn was enticing, so effortless to obtain, but eventually the cause of their loss of freedom. The fence had been built; the gate had been shut."

At this point in our conversation, the young teacher loudly exclaimed, "This is what I see happening in America today! People are being offered free corn by the government. People are being blind to the fences being built around them by the liberals - the socialists - and that is what frightens me! Just like it was happening in my homeland. The American people do not learn from history. And history shows that socialism/communism does not work.

Take note of Russia. Has socialism been the best thing that ever happened to that country? Absolutely not! But socialism is what the American people are being fed, and they don't realize it. All they can focus on is the 'free corn.' They want more and more of the free corn. And this free corn is being fed to us little by little, and soon the gate will slam shut. I am very frightened, and also amazed, that the American people don't see what is being fed us, and for what purpose."

With that said, the young man sat down at his desk and continued to rub his painful back. And I was silent in my chair. For I could visualize the supposedly "free corn" being fed to our nation's people and our growing addiction to the "free corn". And I could see the gate being slammed shut.

We, the people of the United States of America, because of our ignorance of history, because of our addiction to the supposedly "free corn," could soon be these prisoners.


Here is another:


Again, I forward this in the interest of informing folks.
Along this line, though, how about a 'rough' comparison...
During the height of the Roman Empire, they were crazy for things from the exotic East, especially Chinese silk and spices from India. It has been speculated that Romans paid out a good deal more than they received, thus creating a trade-deficit. The Chinese were noted to only have a market for Roman wine and the furs from from the Northern Provinces. Nearer to the end of the Roman Empire, the Western Empire-circa 400 AD, this trade imbalance was cause for grave concern. The government was unable to pay its soldiers, and you may all remember, some very bad people were lurking on Rome's doorstep. Shortly thereafter, well you all know what history teaches us- the Roman Empire, the Western half, fell apart and Rome, heretofore unparalleled as the largest and arguably the greatest city on earth at the time, was sacked by a bunch of half-assed Vandals and barbarians.
Fast forward two or so thousand years (Sounds so Hollywood; actually more like 1700 or so years) to today. The USA has been been compared, not unfavorably to the Roman Empire of old (Does this mean the USA will be split? The Holy Western Empire, perhaps, and Eastern Hegemony? HHmm...). If we allow for the obvious differences, we are the ONLY Superpower on Earth, we control vast areas economically (Why did the Romans conquer all of those peaceful, friendly places anyway?) and we have we some deadly foes just a heartbeat away, on our doorstep. And now we find that the Chinese (Remember them from our ancient Roman history boys and girls?) produce stuff that we absolutely cannot do without. I wonder if the Romans ever had issues with the quality, or even the potential lethality of Chinese goods back in the day?

History can teach here, boys and girls. We are not far from the end the Romans suffered all those many years ago. The Chinese connection- a conspiracy? Draw your own conclusions. Famous people, many of them, have stated in various ways that if we do not learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it (alright, probably just one guy, but I cannot remember who).

Answer 9

iraq - vietnam
bush - bush
most presidents we have elected to two terms

Answer 10

reelected Bill Clinton :(