The resort to historical analogies is neither sinful nor stupid intrinsically. It’s human. As the excellent Vietnam historian Fredrik Logevall said in a January lecture:
There is a deep-seated human desire, an assumption, to believe that if a thing brought … disaster in the past, it’s also going to bring disaster the next time around. Public decisions in contemporary politics … necessarily imply a guess about the future derived from the experience of the past.
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