Word: hindsighted
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...been more than 30 years since John F. Kennedy put American advisers into Vietnam, 17 since Gerald Ford pulled the last troops out. That should be enough hindsight for a clear view of the bottom line, especially because the larger, longer conflict of which Vietnam was a part -- the great twilight struggle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union -- is also now over at last...
...that? Did Bush really bungle Iraq, or did he make a decent job of an inherently tortuous situation? Desert Shield and Desert Storm -- the diplomacy of building an anti-Saddam coalition and then routing the Iraqi dictator on the battlefield -- are an acknowledged triumph. The smart bombs of hindsight are aimed instead at prewar diplomacy, where Bush is accused of coddling Saddam despite mounting evidence of his aggressive intentions...
...majority correctly faults the Bush administration for coddling Saddam Hussein in the years--even days--leading up to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. We congratulate them on their miraculous hindsight. But Bush's error was one of judgement, not of intention. By maintaining friendly ties with Iraq, he had hoped to tame Hussein's aggressiveness. A fatal miscalculation, we agree, but an understandable one given the complicated history of the region...
...that telling exchange in the second debate because it came just minutes after moderator Bernard Shaw asked Michael Dukakis the Big Question presumably all America wanted answered: "If Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?" Even with four years of hindsight, that hypothetical query still chills with its smarmy invasiveness and macabre posturing. Politically, of course, Dukakis' unemotional, uninflected, unyielding answer ("No, I don't, Bernard") was in effect his concession speech. But nothing, save the yen for televised blood sports, justified the original question; capital punishment is an issue...
...Sarajevo airlift, but that is just a Band-Aid. Neither man has offered a plan for bringing the carnage in the splintering republics to an end, or a clear policy on how to manage the dangerous separatist wave sweeping the world. The Clinton camp's critique is mainly hindsight: Bill wouldn't have held on to the sanctity of Yugoslav unity so long, Bill wouldn't have signaled Serbia that the U.S. would not resist its aggression as the Bush Administration did, Bill would have acted sooner on humanitarian relief...