Word: hindsight
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...what does demand an immediate answer is what the U.S. and its friends will do to prevent more deaths among refugees from the failed rebellions and Saddam's bloody vengeance. They number in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, and their plight has drawn all the passion of hindsight debate. But the argument is critical -- especially since the early response of Washington was pitifully inadequate...
...first recorded use of the phrase "death of the yuppie." In hindsight, this can be seen as wish fulfillment...
...progress, calls for more openness might easily have been dismissed as the product of a naturally curious Harvard community. But now the search is over, and the final result is known to all--the curiosity factor has been eliminated. We can now ask, with the benefit of hindsight, whether the search committee's secrecy was a necessary evil or an excessive obsession...
While it took months for Desert Shield to be transformed into Desert Storm, U.S. policymakers were scrambling for cover within days of the invasion, trying to defend their actions from the harsh judgments of hindsight. The great "Who lost Kuwait?" debate was on. Revisionism was rampant. But what was clear was that the roots of a failed policy went back more than a decade. The American embrace of Saddam Hussein began on Nov. 4, 1979, when the Islamic revolutionaries who had overthrown the Shah of Iran seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 66 Americans hostage. That cataclysmic event...
...history will record that that man contributed immensely to this nation. In a sense, Johnson's objectives in the civil rights bill and Vietnam were the same. He was passionate in a way about human liberty and freedoms and believed he was advancing their cause in both instances. In hindsight it looks absurd to say that, perhaps. But without that civil rights bill -- if he did nothing other than that, and he did a lot other than that -- where would...