First, though, let's look back in time just a bit-some history will help us put today's world into context.

首先，让我们把时光稍微倒流一点——部分历史能帮助我们理解今日的世界。

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"Look back history, look ahead into the future". Have success happy, also have failure bitter. But these can only represent to pass.

“回顾历史，展望未来”。有成功的喜悦，也有失败的苦涩。但这些只能代表过去。

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If you look back into the history of Germany or Japan, or the United States, you typically find a period when the Magic Formula is in full effect.

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We could probably apply it to the wars in afghan and iraq, but I think that is something that previous generations of government left us with if we look back into the history of our involvment in our fight against communism.

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