Fnord wrote:
Brictoria wrote:
...Could you outline specifically what he should have done, based on publicly available knowledge available at the time (ignoring hindsight and what you "think" he knew)...
An impossible set of conditions. One cannot look at "what he should have done" while simultaneously "ignoring hindsight", because hindsight is required to even speculate on past events, whether real or alternate.
But I think you knew this already.Interesting attempt at wilful misdirection...
To simply what I was asking (for those trying to find ways to evade the question), I'll add an example of what I had indicated:
1) Information becomes available on an issue
2) A decision is made\action occurs based on this.
3) Further information appears several days later which would have affected\invalidated the decision.
The decision in step 2 cannot be judged based on the information from step 3 (hindsight), but solely on that available at step 1. Decisions following step 3, however, may be judged against all previous steps.
And now, with that clarified, we can return to:
Brictoria wrote:
Could you outline specifically what he should have done, based on publicly available knowledge available at the time (ignoring hindsight and what you "think" he knew), and was within his power to do, not being a responsibility of the various state governors (feel free to add examples of other countries actions at that same time to contrast his actions with)?
I see a lot of people making claims based on hindsight, or assuming power that he does not have but which instead resides with the state governors, but seeing as you are putting forward so many statements regarding what he should have done, or did not do, I figure you must be the most "informed" person here regarding this, and so should be able to easily and quickly provide a definitive list of exactly what he did wrong, based on the specific knowledge he would have had at the time.
Maybe you could also list anything you believe he did right as well, just to show you are being objective with your claims.