Writing ?

I listened to Robert Kaplan, a noted writer, interviewed on CNN 2(I believe) about his writings and his thoughts about the countries that he has written about.I think he has written at least 10 books and another book in the making. His books are apparently so good that they are used in colleges as references. There seems that one of reasons his books are good is that he has studied history of the areas that he wrote about and not just from the last few years. One of the things that was brought up besides the history of the various places was writing words a a person could see pictures. History is needed to know in order to properly write about the place. The back ground in time is needed so that things will make sense. History is not taught in the American Schools anymore but somehow people need to find the energy and the effort to start reading history books - whether fiction or non fiction. Some of th Best fiction books are usually based on real history. I believe there was a book based on the fact that the Russian fleet was based at New York Harbor during 1864 during the civil war. I am amazed that more fiction books that are based on truth do not come out. There could be some fantastic adventure stores written about historical events. There could be comic strips in the newpapers based history but written as fiction. It might take some imagination and some historical digging to be able to do it. But just think, the youth or general population would learn something beside nothing. This little bit of writing that I am doing in this Blogger etc has sure made reading the Newspapers ,etc more enjoyable. There is so much there is to learn about this world and writing and reading is sure one of the best ways to learn about it. One of the good things about writing is that in no debate . The problem with Debating a subject is in many cases the words are twisted around with no factual basis. One of the good things about writing even if now one read the article- is simple - somewhere in this world somebody has the same idea. I have seen where I wrote to the newspaper and said throw it away. In many cases - there appeared an article about the subject that was written.