Age of Treason

"Historia est magistra vitae" or, in other words, when faced with serious present-day problems, people tend to look for solutions in the past. In doing so, they like to imagine the past as nothing more than slightly distorted version of the present (and that probably explains why current unpleasantness in Iraq is so often compared with WW2 and Vietnam War). Sometimes, this projecting of present into the distant past…