Word: hindsight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wieland case has an importance far greater than its immediate implications might suggest. If every civil servant can be called subversive because hindsight shows his decisions to have been ill-advised, the United States will never have a creative civil service...
Mature or not, however, Aten was an extremely perceptive observer during what in hindsight has emerged as an extremely important part of history. For had the Cossacks been able to push their advance through to Moscow, and thus exterminated the Bolsheviks, the state of the world would be unrecognizably different today. Aten, in the midst of the Cossack army, had opportunities to meet and study its commanding officers. And the description of their policy conflicts and petty jealousies is another important part of his book. Two of these men clashed openly on the question of how far to extend...
...difficult to quarrel with Kennan's hindsight. One can however, criticize Kennan for falling to treat in sufficient detail the role of foreign policy in a democracy. Like Lippmann in The Public Philosophy, Kennan moans about democracies liability to pursue an effective foreign policy, but he gives no realistic suggestion as to how this can be corrected...
...that aided the cause of liberty-the U.S. intervention in Greece in the late 1940s, for example, when a U.S. military mission under General James Van Fleet furnished training and planning that enabled the loyalists to prevail in the civil war against Communist guerrillas. History also records instances where hindsight saw nonintervention to have been wrong-headed and wrong-hearted-the West's paralysis when Hitler seized Austria, the U.S.'s failure to intervene forcefully enough in China after World War II. Last week, with the Geneva conference on Laos getting started (see THE WORLD), British and French...
...executed the astute notion of telling the story of the French Revolution in terms of eyewitness stories culled from 50,000 items in the national archives. The book gives all the blooming, buzzing confusion of a new world being created but not yet comprehended or tidied up by the hindsight or partisanship of a Michelet, Taine or Carlyle...