There is a phrase that I'm sure we've all heard in one form or another which is peculiarly significant at this point for the citizens of the United States.  It is simply this:

"History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time."

In general, this phrase depicts the familiar echoes of recurrent historical themes as they cycle back in a renewed form, changed a bit in each incarnation but carrying with them similar lessons that humanity may not have fully comprehended the first time.  Some have even gone so far as to embody the concept of the phrase into a definition called "cyclic history".  Whether based on coincidental observation or actually extant within one's beliefs, we are now witnessing a recurrence of two major themes playing out across the world stage that should cause us to s