and i had the pleasure of interviewing general gordon sullivan, the chair of the board of trustees at norwich university a few weeks ago, and he impressed on me how important was for him and norwich to get this history major in a huge liberal, underused the word liberal in the classical sense, education. he said without an understanding of history, there's very little you can do as far as making sound decisions at the top levels 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 field that we wanted to do, we've not been able to prevail against an enemy, the taliban, that has no gdp. we have 15 trillion total to the same in iraq and you can carry that through. so my question to you is, that in america we have a saying, that's history, right? when someone says something that you think is irrelevant decide that's history. i think we are to do away with that saying. i want you to take know what happened in 1947. and as you would, at ticketmaster and in your book, i'm raising preciously buy multi