Book & Information 12 Jun 2008 09:13 pm
We Know Nothing
A while back I read a BBC news article on an interesting, though not new, book. Here is the link to the full article.
In 1919, a young British army officer, Francis Stockdale, was deployed to the Waziristan area of British India. The title of his book, “Walk Warily in Waziristan” seems no less appropriate now than it did 90 years ago, because today the autonomous Pakistani tribal region of North and South Waziristan is the centre of militancy orchestrated by pro-Taleban and al-Qaeda militants. It is also an area where many believe the al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, may be hiding after the September 2001 World Trade Centre attacks.
If the same situation is happening now as sixty years ago, where is the knowledge? The gain?
The concept of learning from past mistakes and history in general is so important, and yet… where are we?
Tags: 1919, al-queda, Book, osama bin laden, taliban, waziristan