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...With hindsight it is easy to see the flaw in this reasoning. Truman needed first to work out a solid concept of what the armed forces were supposed to do in defense of the U.S., and then cut away the nonessentials. In the absence of this concept, the Budget Bureau was literally running military policy. This in turn provoked shameful interservice brawling like the 1949 "Revolt...
...well aware, in hindsight, that U.S. code crackers found out Japan's plans in advance. Fuchida and his coauthor, another officer who survived the disaster, quote U.S. Naval Historian Samuel Eliot Morison's verdict that Midway was "a victory of intelligence." They have practically nothing good to say for their leaders' performance. They find the Imperial Navy's intelligence "ineffective." its plan "faulty," its technology backward (only the U.S. had radar at Midway), its security procedures far slacker than before the Pearl Harbor attack. In the first week of June 1942, they say, all Japanese suffered...
...Hindsight. In Council Bluffs, Iowa, Mrs. Raymond Hall began trimming dead limbs from a neighbor's tree, was 50 feet up before she realized that she had sawed so many limbs she could not get down, when rescued by the fire department commented: "That was the dumbest thing I ever heard...
Perhaps, in hindsight, the advice should have been taken more to heart. But the U.S. dilemma was that the French were in charge in Indo-China. A shooting war was on, and the central problem was to save the land from Communist absorption. While the tragedy played toward its climax, disappointed Ngo Dinh Diem sadly took himself off to a monastery, in Belgium, there to live and wait in a cell. "We must continue the search for God's Kingdom and His justice," Diem wrote home, "all else will come of itself...
Prelude to Discord. U.S. apologists for Yalta have said for years that its mistakes are only apparent by hindsight, that the circumstances of 1945, especially the brave and loyal Russian record of cooperation in the war, made reasonable the assumption that Russia, Britain and the U.S. could act in postwar concert. The record as now revealed undercuts this argument. Stalin, at least, kept his head above the tide of comradeship. He defined his national and party objectives, studied them carefully, defended them with lucid (if dishonest) arguments, and attained them. Some of his aims seemed quite limited when compared...