Word: hindsighted
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...Hindsight is wonderful. And the foreign policy debate these days is a positive orgy of hindsight...
...hindsight, President Clinton undoubtedly wishes he'd stopped that U.N. Security Council resolution on Somalia last June -- the one leading to the pursuit and capture of warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. Defense Secretary Les Aspin has admitted that he regrets vetoing the military's request for more tanks for Somalia in September -- tanks that might have prevented Aidid's massacre of American troops on Oct. 3. And the Administration might well be having second thoughts about the so-called Governors Island accord of July 3, which committed the U.S. to send at least a few troops to help restore democracy...
...evil personified. To quell the boyar conspiracy, Ivan creates his secret police force, the "Oprichnina." The parallels between this medieval Russian epoque and the Stalinist Terror are obvious. It's not clear whether Eisenstein intended it to be this way or whether we are looking back with twentieth century hindsight at the parallels...
Media conspiracy buffs saw something sinister in the fact that Clinton initially said he had no idea why Vince Foster shot himself, and then--like anyone whose friend commits suicide--remembered things that in hindsight could be seen as warning signals...
...hindsight, I wish someone had done it," said the worker. "I wish Chaz and Rachel had done...