Not for the first time, and perhaps not for the last time, these words are so relevant.<p><i>A war that need not have been fought was about to be</i><p><i>fought because of mutual misunderstanding, language</i><p><i>difficulties, and mistranslations.</i><p>Why did America drop the two bombs? Why did it not drop the first one over the Tokyo bay? Why Japanese leaders hesitated so much to surrender, despite being so much overwhelmed by foreign power? Why nobody managed to stop Hitler from inside Germany? Why all the genocides in the history had to happen?<p>The world is complicated, it does not always choose the right path. Decisions of even the greatest importance are sometimes made with insufficient information, and are subject to all kinds of cognitive failures. It&#x27;s easy to judge after you know all the facts.