The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with.

— William Pfaff Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989)

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