My Interest in History...
Pete Laing sent me an interesting URL last summer that got me started on a journey to improve my knowledge of history.
That article did a lot to change my attitude towards America's role in the world. After reading that article, I continued to read this and this - and of course I bookmarked Policy Review Online.
I realized at this point that my knowledge of World War II history (and history in general) was abyssmal - primarily due to the fact that the education system that I came through didn't want to teach me history. (Of course, I also take responsibility for not having taken enough initiative to understand history since finishing school.) I started by reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and went from there.
Having been on this journey for the last year has really helped me put the current war into perspective much better. I have a lot of thoughts about war, history, morality, democracy, the future, culture, and more that I hope to be able to share as I move forward with this weblog.
Keep watching this space.