From the dawn of recorded history, the failure of developing governments to heed the lessons taught by the mistakes of previously fallen regimes has invariably resulted in sad replays of calamities perpetrated by deviously conspiring men and women of political and financial means. Most of these mistakes have been derived from the misuse of the military in aggressive foreign policy entanglements. The tragic Iraq War debacle is but a replay of the awful Vietnam saga, and the prevailing illicit machinations of the Bush administration are but a revisiting of the deceitful Nixon and Reagon years multiplied by a thousand. So when will it all stop? When will our supposedly wise and intelligent leaders begin to learn from sad experience? By placing the military in charge of the already semi-fascist U.S. intelligence community, the resulting effect will be like putting the insatiable fox in the henhouse, and will only make existing matters worse. The American republic will be unable to continue withstanding the continued and resisted umbrage against its already wounded standard, the Constitution of the United States. As Thomas Jefferson sagaciously wrote in the Declaration of Independence, “That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.” His words are as true now as they were then.