Abusing history

"History will be kind to me," Churchill famously proclaimed "because I intend to write it." And he did. And it was. Perhaps this was inevitable.
"The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence will pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?" A J Muste asked in 1941. Perhaps, given the outcome of the Second World War, the victorious powers would never look upon it in a manner that allows us to draw any useful lessons from it.
But sixty years later, it seems to me that it simply will not do to accept defeat on this matter. Moving past Churchill is no easy task, and neither it seems is properly taking responsibility for launching the world in to the nuclear age (the punditry that marked the 60th aniversary of the nuclear bombs was marked by a stubborn refusal to admit an ounce of regret).
Nevertheless, we should surely be doing an awful lot better than this.

"David Cameron will liken the growth of militant Islamic terrorism to the rise of the Nazis in a speech today attempting to establish his leadership credentials as tough on foreign policy" reports The Independent today.

It doesnt really concern me that David Cameron is saying these kinds of things. It concerns me that his political strategists believe it will find approving audiences, and that they might be right.