i had the pleasure of interviewing general gordon sullivan, chair of the board of trustees at norwich university a few weeks ago and he impressed on me how important it was to get this history major in a huge liberal, i use liberal in a classical sense, education. resolve an understanding of history, he said, that is there is very little you can do as far as making sound decisions at the top level of any chain of command and so i wanted to take us forward now, we spend trillions of dollars, the strongest army in the world, has taken every hill that we wanted to but we have not been able to prevail against an enemy, the telegram that has no gdp, we have $15 trillion, same in iraq and you can carry that through, so my question to you is in america we have the same, that is history, when someone says something you think is irrelevant you say that his history. i think we ought to do away with that saying and i want you to take what happened in 1947 and if you would as you did masterly in your book, i am raising the pressure here so you go out and buy multiple copies of his book, christmas