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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1674176/posts?page=1 The lessons of history Toronto Sun ^ | 2006-07-29 | Salim Mansur Posted on 07/29/2006 6:05:47 AM CDT by Clive CONSTANTINE, ALGERIA -- History is the consequence of consequences. Barbara Tuchman, the Pulitzer prize-winning historian, pointed out history might also be a "march of folly." Fifty years ago this month, Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian dictator, unleashed a torrent of rhetoric in nationalizing the Suez Canal. The soldier-politician carried his country and Arabs beyond Egypt's borders on a tide of nationalist sentiment to the high noon of pan-Arab politics. A few months later, Nasser's rhetoric brought the tripartite response...