Gene Callahan, in his essay "The Lessons of History," explains how false lessons can be derived from history. One way of doing this is by "cherry-pick[ing] your examples," i.e., choosing only the ones that prove your point. Another is "contra-factual history," or assuming that something would certainly have occurred if events had gone another way (Callahan). An example of the latter is Patrick Buchanan's contention in "A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny" concerning the entry of the United States into World War I: "The War to make
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