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Practice Reading: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown) ID: #5476 Decisions 3
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Every  day,  on  television,  on  the  radio,  and  in  the  newspapers,  we  see,  hear,  and  read  about  leaders  and  politicians  making  decisions  that  are  clearly  wrong-headed  and  that  seem  to  us,  the  horrified  watchers,  listeners,  and  readers,  counter-productive.  To  be  reasonably  impartial  about  such  blunders,  we  must  try  to  put    for  the  moment  how  the  decision  might  affect  us  as  individuals;  what  we  are  looking  for  are  decisions  that  are  contrary  to  the  interests  of  their  makers.  A  glaring  historical  example  of  such  stupidity  would  be  the  respective  attempts  of  Charles  XII,  Napoleon  Bonaparte,  and  Hitler  to  invade  Russia    the  disasters  it  brought  each  of  their  predecessors.
Now,  when  investigating  these  matters  we  must  tread  carefully  and  remember  that  it  is  wrong  to  judge  the  past  by  the  ideas  of  the  present.  Therefore,  the  disastrous    made  in  the  past  must  have  been  seen  at  the  time  by  contemporaries  to  be  counterproductive,  not  just  with  the    of  experience.  Again,  we  must  check  to  see  if  there  were  any  other    of  action  that  could  have  been  taken  and,  if  so,  why  they  were  not.

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