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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [QB] [i]Yet, now Rob says it's bad for us to critique stuff that happened in the past. Omega ammends that to say it's okay to critique stuff as long as you critique it when it happens.[/i] Um... wouldn't that simply be restating the exact same idea? [i]What Omega fails to realize is that it *was* critiqued when it happened! And it's still being critiqued![/i] Criticizing foreign policy when it happens is good. Criticizing foreign policy a decade or two after the fact is dwelling on that which can't be changed, and thus a waste of energy. In foreign policy, the same situation rarely repeats itself twice except on the most general level, so learning from what may or may not have been a mistake is very difficult. In a case like this, the past is useful for understanding the present, but criticizing it is pointless. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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