Word: hindsighted
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...clearly false to state that only through historical hindsight could McCloy have understood that the internment was wrong. The facts did exist back in 1942 showing that there was no "military necessity" for the internment--but those in positions of responsibility did not bother to uncover the true facts. Moreover, most of the known facts and exculpatory evidence was ignored Facts showed in 1942 that there was no threat of a Japanese invasion of the West Coast; FBI and Navy intelligence reports, and a special investigatory report ordered by the President, fully documented the fact that the Japanese-American population...
...three decisions which McCloy has been attacked for--the failure to bomb Ausehwitz the interment of the Japanese Americans and the Krupp case--are all matters much clearer in hindsight than they were at the time. In each case a strong argument can be make on either military or legal grounds for the decision which McCloy made or participated in These were 51 49 decisions made by men during national crises under the pressure of time and with incomplete information. It is a false and insidrous analogy to compare the decision makers in these cases to the Nazi war criminals...
McCloy's involvements with Japanese-Americans, with Holocaust victims, and with Nazi war criminals were not merely those of an administrator "only following orders," nor did he simply support policies that turned out in hindsight to be wrong...
Even in analyzing what he sees as critical mistakes, Brzezinski is quick to blame others, and he is unpersuasive about how he would have done better, despite the benefit of hindsight and the opportunity to pose solutions that cannot be tested against events. The Administration's dithering over the Soviet-Cuban intervention in Ethiopia was, he asserts, a disastrous turning point. The fault, he quickly adds, lay largely with Vance and others who were loath to exert power. If Brzezinski had had his way, the U.S. would have sternly warned the Kremlin about the effect of its Ethiopian gambit...
...debate about some of the more murky aspects of U.S. wartime activities. McCloy's involvement in these chapters of history is common knowledge; what is contested is the extent to which he shaped some of the controversial decisions of the period, many of which have only become clarified by hindsight...