Word: hindsighted
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...debacle in Iraq was wholly predictable, given the history of the British occupation there in the 1920s and the U.S. disaster in Vietnam. Moreover, it is bad military doctrine to fight the inevitable guerrilla war without an integrated hearts-and-minds operation. What I'm saying isn't hindsight; many of us have known from the start that the Iraq war was insane...
...happy U.S. If Smart does buck the odds and survive, the next big decision will be whether to launch the car in the States. A successor model to the original two-seater is under design, and it will comply with U.S. road requirements, company officials say. In hindsight, "we were naive," says a senior Smart executive. "We initially said we weren't selling a car but an idea. Now we know that customers want to buy cars, not ideas...
...know it’s hard not to feel angry or want to place blame on someone or something, and it’s true that in hindsight things could always have been handled better,” said Kargere. “But at this stage, it’s clear that both students and responders did their very best to handle a difficult situation...
...eight-year-old and a four-year-old who don't have a father because someone screwed up." ERSM's Dubai-based managing director, Simon Crane, says the front and rear cars were not armored because there was no garage in Baghdad capable of correctly armor-plating a BMW. "Hindsight can be a terrible thing," says Crane, who served as a British Army officer from 1988 to 2003. The men in the convoy applied "exactly the correct fire solutions," he says. "And when the incident was over, they dealt with their comrades and moved on." The existence of the video...
...Hindsight is 20/20. But once in a rare while, foresight is too. For years, researchers have described exactly what would happen if a megahurricane hit New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf region. They predicted that the city levees would not hold. Their elaborate computer models showed that tens of thousands would be left behind. They described rooftop rescues, 80% of New Orleans underwater and "toxic gumbo" purling through the streets. If experts had prophesied a terrorist attack with that kind of accuracy, they would be under suspicion for treason...