SOG,
Clearly people have trouble looking ahead. That comes from not understanding/learning from the past. It's not their fault entirely though. Take comfort in that. But they could do something about it such as talking with people on the ground rather than reading academic theories.
Vote against the hangers-on parties & take useless bureaucrats to task.
I'd like to see a movement focussing on accountability instead of wasting literally billions on silly schemes dreamt up by Gillard & Co. without consulting the people who provide the funding, the taxpayer.
Vision is as much about looking at past mistakes as it is envisaging what's ahead. Our experts put so much effort & our money into speculating rather than doing with hindsight.
WW2 was not Hitler's vision, it was the result of his vision being hijacked by the fanatic Nazis.

individual:>> WW2 was not Hitler's vision, it was the result of his vision being hijacked by the fanatic Nazis.<<

That is so wrong on so many levels. Read My Struggle by Hitler, it is all laid out there in between his turgid prose.

Lexi how can any nation have a vision given globalization has made national protection decisions redundant at Federal level. We can't pick and choose what products enter our domestic market and we have no control of pricing, nor do we control our boarders and who enters, the UN has seen to that. All our government can do is push US around and lobby for jobs with the UN after that is accomplished.

SOG,
I'm sure he head plenty of time to write in the bunker where he ended up.

Indy, this bunker?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM5f_gZT06c&feature=related

The Japs went to war because the West was restricting their trade and they having no oil or much in the way of resources were rightfully fearful of being sujgated by the West.Japan also in this era was one of the world's leading manufacturers and they had a banking system free from the Private Western Central Banksters debt based banking system.

We in Australia warned the USA that Japan was on its way but they ignored us.The US people didn't want war so the US Govt let it happen.Hence before the events of 911 we hear the neo-cons calling for a "New Pearl Harbour" Zbigniew Brezezinski," What we need is a truely massive and widely perceived direct external threat." That threat was contrived terrorism.

Last year Zbigniew said," It the past it was easier to control a million people that kill them.Today it is infinietly easier to kill a million people than control them." Zibigniew was the chief foreign policy adviser to Jimmy Carter and is still a major influence on Obama today.

SOG,
I shudder at the mentality of people who use atrocities as a base for brainless fun.
I wonder how they'd act were they cornered in every which way. Is the benefit of hindsight wasted on too many people or rather humanoids ?