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With our perfect historical hindsight we can, of course, smirk at poor Mr. Blum’s naiveté. How could he think that you could do business with a Nazi? How could he think he was dealing with a rational actor? Shouldn’t he have realized that he was dealing with evil incarnate? What a fool...
...Summers’ advisers argued that a forthright apology might snuff out the controversy before it intensified, according to the two sources. That assessment, in hindsight, may have been overly optimistic. But in any event, Summers was not on board...
...huge acquisition binge by its former ceo Jean-Marie Messier. Morgan Stanley's Pereira contends that the latest activity is fundamentally different. "A lot of M&A then was driven by technology, media and telecommunications [companies], where business models were changing and valuations for the business proved, in hindsight, to be ahead of the reality. Today, people are not looking into a 'new paradigm,'" Pereira says. "There's a bubble-effect risk in some sectors, but it's a very different environment." Daniel Fermon, senior European strategist for French bank Société Générale points...
...debacle in Iraq was wholly predictable, given the history of the British occupation there in the 1920s and the U.S. disaster in Vietnam. Moreover, it is bad military doctrine to fight the inevitable guerrilla war without an integrated hearts-and-minds operation. What I'm saying isn't hindsight; many of us have known from the start that the Iraq war was insane. J. Stephen Cridland Cape Town...
...debacle in Iraq was wholly predictable, given the history of the British occupation there in the 1920s and the U.S. disaster in Vietnam. Moreover, it is bad military doctrine to fight the inevitable guerrilla war without an integrated hearts-and-minds operation. What I'm saying isn't hindsight; many of us have known from the start that the Iraq war was insane. J. Stephen Cridland Cape Town...