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It is certainly safe to say, the opinion of historians is, today, no better then anyone elses. Right now it is a current event, with no time to lend it the perspective of history.
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I wouldn't go that far. Wouldn't you agree that having a good working knowledge of history would give you a perspective on current events that somebody that knows nothing of history would lack? You know, some arguments in favor of the policy of preemption use what we learned from WW2 as evidence that we can't sit idly by. You know, it's the danger of becoming isolationalist. So you say historians are biased, but let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater. History is useful and so we need historians.