by Patrick J. Buchanan – October 16, 1998

Watching America march, step by step, ever deeper into the Balkans brings to mind Hegel’s observation that the only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history.

“My mind-set is Munich,” Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has exclaimed. Yet she and the Clintonites seem to have misread the deeper lesson of that ill-fated conference between Adolf Hitler and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.