World Tribune — Sol Sanders: The 'Summer War': Will West learn from history?

Some dead old white Frenchman once said, I am told, that all historical analogies are odious. One definition of "odious" in the New Oxford Dictionary is "exciting hatred or repugnance". And that could well be. No two events in history are really alike. But it is useful sometimes to recall how something that is happening now might be better analyzed by looking back at another historical event.