History Repeats Itself

 I  found myself thinking about American Senator Joseph McCarthy recently.

His story has been re-visited a few times. I was surprised to find his activities were so long ago;Sixty years .

If you live long enough  stuff does tend  to revolve. McCarthy's witch hunt continued was publicly funded and allowed to continue  he accused the military was harboring communists. Then Republican President Dwight D.Eisenhower finally brought it to a halt but not before he had destroyed many lives. Many others took their own lives? Most of them writers and entertainers .

McCarthy was forty-nine when he died.

The atrocity in Paris probably made me think of him.

The entire world seems to be shaking a fist in defiance of extremism.

The gunmen in Paris apparently number three. Two brothers of Algerian extraction and a twenty-year old are being sought according to current broadcasts.

Very little has been reported about the individual who shot the soldier on Parliament Hill. Except for reference to connections to extremism.

Somehow the thought  of the IRA raising funds in the U.S.A for arms and ammunition  for terrorist attacks in England comes to mind. Don 't recall anyone, including the British government making
anything of that. Irish mothers decided those atrocities had to end.


France is no stranger to terrorist attacks. When French Indo China (Vietnam) was trying to take back it's country from France ,it was a long and bloody struggle. Algeria was a repeat.

French warned the Americans about not going into Iraq.The Americans did it anyway. They mocked France for being cowardly.

Now they are the ones having a hard time getting out

We all know the wise saying ,if we don't learn from the mistakes of th past ,we are doomed to repeat them.
That we are.