It’s not blaming your actions on history and I never said anything to that point. It’s about understanding the previous actions and why they occured and how we got to where we are now so that we make sensible decisions. We act on based on what we know AND what is happening, not just one or the other.

Nothing happeens in a vacuum, man.

You can’t just throw out centuries of precedent and actual events that had very real effects when analyzing the current situation that things are in.

Note: That sentence you quoted, I meant “is based” instead of “isn’t based”. The response has been edited.