Originally posted by Ripsnort
Discuss.
...It's easy to use the benefit of hindsight, that over half-a-century of history affords us, after the fact. We can sit back and pick shots at who used the bomb, who built it, or on whom it was used. But can we honestly look back and say that we ourselves, would have made those same decisions', knowing all the consequenses, in all fairness to Roosevelt and Truman? We might be able to come back to these boards' in 30 years, pick through all of the threads' on why we should or should not be in Iraq, and use the benefit of hindsight to say who was right or who was wrong. But, when you look at those same threads' today, while it is going on, You see people saying things' about Iraq that might or might not be true in a few decades' time.
I think, Rip, that it's too hard for most people, to honestly put themselves' in the same shoes as FDR or Truman, and to consider everything the same way they had to, without using our 'hindsight' to throw our judment askew.
