> We’ve already forgotten 9/11, it seems. <
Oh, yes. And that’s all on George W. Bush. He set the tone with his idiotic “Islam is peace” statement after 9/11. And he said that less than a week after the attacks!
Say what you will about FDR. But he set the proper tone after Pearl Harbor. No “Japanese imperialism is peace” nonsense from him.
That is exactly the justification for reading and studying history. Presently, we are on the path to painfully reliving and relearning painful lessons from the past.