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...hindsight, it seems remarkable that the Marines were able to conceal such a horrific event for so long. It began, as so many things in Iraq do, with an explosion. At about 7:15 in the morning on Nov. 19, a string of four humvees were on routine patrol in a residential area when a white taxicab approached from the opposite end of the street. The Marines made hand and arm signals for the taxi to stop. But as the taxi halted near the first humvee, a bomb under the fourth humvee exploded, killing its driver--Lance Corporal Miguel...
...didn’t bring them along to shoot anybody,” Avakian writes, “but we did feel like we needed to defend ourselves in case we were attacked.” It seems a bit disingenuous, and a bit like hindsight, for a man who openly espoused violence to renounce violent intent in carrying a loaded weapon...
After looking at conflicts in Iraq, Israel, and Iran in light of preventive foreign policy, Dershowitz finally offers a plan, shifting the question from whether preemption is appropriate in the first place to how we judge the results of preemptive policy in hindsight...
They say that anyone can be a success in a job if they can choose their predecessor. In Bok’s case, his successors have made him look better and better in hindsight. Neil Rudenstine is a very kind and courtly man who will be remembered for his prodigious fundraising and support for African-American studies, but who often appeared overwhelmed by the job of running Harvard. (After Rudenstine suffered what looked like a nervous breakdown and took a leave four years into his tenure, Newsweek put him on the cover with the line “Exhausted...
...hindsight, it's easy to say that the investigators made a mistake in tracking only the total amount of fat consumed and not the saturated and trans fats now known to damage arteries. But all the earlier research on preventing cancer suggested that total fat was the culprit, so investigators decided to concentrate on that...