How did you feel then? How do you feel now?

[sspadowsky]

My immediate reaction was, "I hope much of the Middle East is turned into a smoking hole in the ground." I think that's verbatim.

Then, I realized how stupid that was, and it occurred to me that humanity is far too fucking stupid to learn from history, and therefore, doomed to continue repeating its mistakes.

Five years of clusterfuck later, I believe that humanity is far too fucking stupid to learn from history, and therefore, doomed to continue repeating its mistakes.

Maybe I'm just an impatient person with a grim outlook on human nature, but ya know what? I'm pretty certain that history is on my side.