Doomed to Repeat

"Historians Against the War" organized in September 2003 to oppose the lies, distortions, and misuses of history that led us into the war in Iraq. (We at The War Room are proud to have organized against the war in Fall 2002.) H.A.W. has been controversial from the start - not just because of its ideas, but because of the very notion of historians - educators who study the past - taking active roles in political issues of the present. Some of our academic colleagues believe that we have no business taking such a public stand. These are the same quibbles, of course, that were heard about ministers during the civil rights movement and Vietnam and that were brilliantly refuted by Martin Luther King, Jr. Take a look at H.A.W.'s website and sign up!

This cartoon is by Josh Brown, from his 'Life During Wartime' strip, at the above link.