VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: WORLD WAR II AMNESIA. “Sixty million people would perish in the six years of war, more than any man-caused or natural calamity in history—and World War II would become one of the few conflicts in history in which the losers suffered far fewer fatalities than did the winners. Yet the lessons of World War II endure and had, until recently, guided our foreign policy successfully.”

Now they don’t guide our foreign policy, and, strangely, our foreign policy isn’t successful. Bad luck, I guess.