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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
You can only see it with respect to your background. Theirs was different. It may not have looked foolish to them. You need to widen your perspective.
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Well, uh - no, I am not seeing this only with respect to my background. That would have been incredibly foolish, even suicidal to have done so - as it proved to be for these two.
I was routinely briefed on and reviewed pertinent information provided by our State Department and other official sources with respect to these places. In other words, I learned about these places
before I ever went there, and heeded the readily available advice and precautions provided by many authoritative sources. I went in with the widest perspective possible - certainly not based upon my own background or experiences. There is an old saying in aviation - "learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself".
These two made the fatal mistake of ignoring or discounting the information available regarding these places. It's not a matter of perspective - they had nothing factual on which to base theirs. They clearly didn't even know enough about the situation in which they placed themselves to form a valid perspective.