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Though Congress must guard against repeating its disastrous mistake in 2003, when it supported the war in Iraq, the commitment to promote human rights that the US made following September 11, 1973, seems a more appropriate standard for weighing Obama’s proposal for US military action in Syria.
But we also need to examine our responses closely, or risk repeating our shortsighted behavior.
In a city where locals have long been relegated to second-class status, the triumph of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) – the Syrian branch of the PKK – has kindled fears that history is repeating.
Putin surely doesn’t want to be accused of repeating the disastrous Afghan War of 1979-1989, which helped to bring about the Soviet Union’s collapse.
The contemporary European solution seems to be repeating the same time-buying tactics of the lost decade of the 1980’s in the developing world.
In seeking a Faustian bargain with the Taliban, Obama risks repeating US policy mistakes that now haunt regional and international security.
A leading columnist for the Financial Times, repeating the erroneous idea that the US has remained on the sidelines, recently implied that Obama had rejected the advice of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to arm the Syrian rebels fighting Assad.
George Soros points to Japan’s unsuccessful attempts to solve its problems by monetary austerity of the German kind, and warns against repeating that experiment.
Japan must avoid repeating the unseemly scenario following Saddam Hussein's defeat in the Gulf War of 1991, when it wrote large checks to cover the war's costs, yet had no say in the war's conduct or war aims.
And, while there is a good chance that this latest infusion of foreign money will help the country to pull out of a deep economic crisis, it will simply be history repeating itself.
Repeating the Savings ampamp;Loan debacle of the 1980’s.
As it happens, this prediction was not based on any peer-reviewed scientific research but was lifted from a report by the World Wildlife Fund, which was repeating an unproven speculation by a single researcher.
Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the founders of The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, believes that singularity will lead to an “intelligence explosion” as super-intelligent machines design even more intelligent machines, with each generation repeating this process.
People Power in the CaucasusFor the past month, women in Georgia who were displaced from Abkhazia during the 1993 conflict have witnessed history moving backwards; everything they lived through 15 years ago is repeating itself.
It may be unsettling to acknowledge, but history is not repeating itself, no matter how tragic or farcical things might appear.
What is new is that repeating these claims, without also addressing people’s deeper concerns, can now do more harm than good.
The key insight of the dismal science bears repeating: there is no free lunch.
Earlier this year, he explained to Parliament’s foreign affairs committee that he had doubts about Western intervention in Libya for fear of repeating events in Iraq.
We can already see the cycle repeating.
Pessimists have long viewed the Chinese economy as they view their own economies – repeating a classic mistake that Yale historian Jonathan Spence’s seminal assessment warned of many years ago.
“This must be an exception,” they kept repeating, like a mantra or a prayer.
Today, history appears to be repeating itself with a vengeance.
Berlusconi tries to mask his inactivity by scaring his voters, repeating again and again that electing the moderate left would mean signing a pact with the devil, i.e., the "communists."
By repeating the claim of “one economics,” Rodrik inadvertently reveals the censorship embedded in contemporary economics.
Concerning Japan’s actions in Asia, however, Abe pledged only “to uphold the views expressed by the previous prime ministers in this regard,” without repeating their actual apologies.
But the real horror for Bulgarians is of Kosovo repeating itself in Macedonia, with another tide of refugees bringing the war and its suffering onto Bulgarian soil itself.
Regulators are instructed, in no uncertain terms, to make sure that all large financial firms are structured in such a way that bankruptcy, using the standard rules and procedures of the court system, can happen without repeating the catastrophic post-Lehman cascade.
Thinking about ourselves, and the world we now live in, his phrase is worth repeating: "They do not remember the world without it."
Now, under "Bush II," America is repeating that folly.
The best way to avoid the risk of repeating such a sequence is bold and aggressive global policy action now.
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