Word: hindsighted
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...fallacy. It is fallacious not just in the objective difference between the two situations, but in the way that indulgence of a false analogy can skew judgment. In general, foreign policy is better served by a conscious attempt to analyze each situation afresh, rather than by the wisdom of hindsight (which, of course, is really not wisdom at all). Soldiers, it has often been said, have the bad habit of waging the last war. Americans, in their current fretting over El Salvador, are similarly afflicted. Across the political spectrum, there is no one who wants to re-experience in Central...
...think that after the game they will with hindsight say yes, it was different. Maybe now," he goes on, "since they haven't experienced it, they don't realize...
...Tuchman is not satisfied with this duty; repeatedly she describes her efforts to get a feeling out of the events she narrates. To heighten the reader's suspense, she writes of the time, without using the benefit of hindsight. ("I went back and cut all references but one of the Battle of the Marne, in the chapters leading up to the battle. Though it may seem absurd, I even cut out all references to the ultimate defeat of Germany. I wrote as if I did not know who would win.") An advocate of "corraborative detail," she uncovers and utilizes insignificant...
William R. Fitzsimmons '67, acting dean of admissions and financial aids, will doubtless be disappointed when he looks under his tree Christmas morning. The present he's looking for, he says, is "what all admissions committees want--the gift of hindsight." And Alan E. Heimert, Cabot Professor of American Literature and master of Eliot House, is also in for a letdown. Heimert's yuletide desire: anonymity...
...hindsight of history, Pearl Harbor was a disaster for Japan's imperial ambitions. The attack was both the beginning of World War II in the Pacific and the beginning of its end. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander in chief of the combined Japanese fleet, who planned the Pearl Harbor operation, warned of that possibility as late as September 1941, when battle practice had already begun. "Japan cannot vanquish the United States," he told a gathering of old schoolmates. "Therefore we should not fight the United States." As Yamamoto saw it, there was only one slim chance for victory...