“War is seen as a great challenge,” Bueno de Mesquita reflects, “so people don’t really question how we got into it unless it fails. All people like winning. Winning is a good thing. Therefore presidents who defeated the ‘evil enemy’—always demonized—are seen as heroic, and so are known as great presidents. That a president avoided getting into a big war is quickly forgotten.”
This is from Ms. Eileen Reynolds from the article, Is War What Makes a President 'Great'? Published by the New York University September 23, 2016
From the behavioral perspective, such would be called as the survivorship bias.
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