Thursday, November 27, 2008

Never assume anything

Politics and Geography

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I’m going to show excerpts from two films today, one is about the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, and the other is from a film about the Cuban missile crisis, 1962. Anybody tell me who the American president was at that time?

Er… Bush?

Hmmm, OK, let’s start with geography. Bay of Pigs? … No idea? OK, how about Cuba? Nope? Er… Russia?

Sort of like Europe? Next to ah, Germany?

Near, but not next to.

Do we need to know this stuff?

Through the mistakes of the past we come to know present dangers. We came that close to losing the planet. In 1962.

Yeah? That was way back.

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