Precepts Ignored and Lessons Not Learned - Part 2

This is the second of three audio posts on the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, continuing the argument that the same unhealthy masculine, us vs. them worldview and Shadow traits that inform the subjugations of women, Indigenous Peoples, and Africans/African-Americans in U. S. history were also catalysts for these two wars, and as previously noted, Vietnam.

Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction

Recommendations: Read or listen to President Eisenhower’s April 15, 1953 speech (link in notes), Robert McNamara’s In Retrospect, and/or the August 2021 SIGAR report (link in notes).

Something to Consider: Beyond and including what’s written here, what’s your sense of why these precepts are ignored and these lessons are not learned?