What I do find interesting is that there are so many parallels and that society has largely forgotten about this.
My hope is that 50 years from now, the current situation in Iraq will be but a distant memory, and that future generation's won't really know what it was like living in a world where the middle-east is in turmoil. Just like my generation doesn't truely know what WWII was like and younger generations don't truely know what the cold war was like.