Word: hindsight
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Touching a penis and then putting a picture of yourself doing it on Facebook In hindsight, a bad call...
...20/20 hindsight, probably you could do everything a little bit better...
...Ironists will note this Mark Foley campaign ad which touts him as a protector of children (though not as a Republican). This ABC News report contains clips from a Foley speech he gave for the 2002 Congressional graduation; at the time it must have seemed simply emotionally wrought. With hindsight Foley's clear affection for the pages takes on a slightly different cast. CNN interviewed House Speaker Dennis Hastert about his knowledge of Foley's actions. Hastert claims that he did "not recall" any conversation about Foley's emails prior to last Friday. This, of course, contradicts the recollections...
...hindsight, stopping genocide is easy. But in Darfur, where it is happening now, stopping genocide is brutally hard. A contingent of 7,000 African Union peacekeepers currently patrol the Texas-size chunk of western Sudan where government-backed militias are busy exterminating the non-Arab population. The African soldiers are decent and brave, but they are engaged in a sham. The militias menace villagers in front of the peacekeepers' eyes; Sudan's government steals the fuel they need to fly their planes. In the words of U.N. envoy Jan Pronk, "The people on the ground are just laughing...
...conflict that changed forever the face of the Middle East. It was a war that fundamentally altered the international balance of power. But it was far from clear that those shifts were favorable to the U.S. Some pessimists, with the benefit of hindsight, suggested that the years after 9/11 marked the beginning of the end of the American Century. But others maintained that it was the beginning of a different kind of American Century...