If we learned nothing from history, that is something that we should have learned and relearned by now.
Brendan Boyle: “If we learned nothing from history, that is something that we should have learned and relearned by now.”
On the recordJuly 13, 2016
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Boyle warns against rewarding Russian aggression based on historical lessons.
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