Capitol Hill Blue Forums Capitol Hill Blue Opinions CHB Columnists Have we really learned any lessons?

Learning lessons seems not to happen during periods of relative security.
Plumbing the depths of pain and despair may set a better learning environment.
The temptation is to remove government from the life equation, but that assumes the goodness of our fellow men, and no matter how much we wish for this, it will not be.
And so we'll begin again, but from a lower level.