The US refuses to learn from experience: it should not engage in international conflicts if, at the beginning, it cannot describe an end, and if it is not willing to sustain the effort needed to achieve that end – American former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger stated regarding America’s current foreign policy.
American present-day politics are done by “ahistorical people”, as in schools they don’t learn history “as a sequence of events, but rather as terms of themes without context” – Henry Kissinger said in an interview with the US bimonthly magazine on international affairs The National Interest.
“The trouble with America’s wars since the end of the Second World War has been the failure to relate strategy to what is possible domestically,” he explained.
“The five wars we’ve fought since the end of World War II were all started with great enthusiasm. But the hawks did not prevail at the end. At the end, they were in a minority."
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