YES, we have and it is this: Not to believe a WORD from mass media/military industrial complex. Not one word. This is the only “lesson.” The destruction of Iraq was called “Nation Building.”
A child of the peace and antiWar movements, a Truther with self-diagnosed Opposition Defiance Disorder, formerly politically liberal tho now politically marooned, and Post-Doomer, on any issue, I trend to the conspiracy side, sort through the absurd, fantastical and insane, until I find firm ground usually located just the other side of the censorship firewall of propaganda and orthodoxy, dogma, and other either / or thinking.