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Pakistan’s politics and history: ignorance and denial
George C Marshall served as the Chief of Staff of the US Army under President FD Rosevelt and Harry Truman and then as Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense under President Truman. But he is more famous for his ‘Marshall Plan’ which was used by the US to provide unprecedented economic and military aid to foreign nations to contain communism. I came across a suggestion he gave during an address at Princeton in February 1947, saying that he doubted “whether a man can think with full wisdom and with conviction regarding certain of the basic international issues today who has not viewed in his mind the period of the Peloponnesian War and fall of Athens.” This encouraged me to read work of some renowned scholars and text of ancient times and when I finished doing that, I realised that “the more things change, the more they stay the s
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