‘10 lessons the US should learn from Afghanistan’s history’

Draw your own conclusions on the author’s expertise, from his lead paragraph:

“Afghanistan provides all too many examples of the wisdom of Winston Churchill's saying ‘those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.’"

http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/01/ten_lessons_the_us_should_learn_from_afghanistans_history

Somebody at Foreign Policy maybe should have read the opening. Maybe Churchill did say that, once or twice, but he was so adept at finding his own words, quoting someone else … Maybe not. I read the article. Ho-hum.