Right decision or wrong decision, it was a leader’s job to make it. - Charles Sheffield

It’s the usual sensation mongering; the news services will say anything for an effect.

Are we perhaps guilty of temporal chauvinism, believing that our own time is uniquely important, as all generation tend to think that their time is of unique importance?

Any other instructions?"
"Not without breaking one of my own golden rules. In an unpredictable situation, the man or woman on the spot should make the decisions, not the general sitting on his ass a million miles away from the action.