Word: hindsighted
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...Hindsight can be a burden as well as a benefit, and we must beware of viewing 1972 with a hindsight that makes the Nixon landslide seem inevitable and the Nixon initiation of Watergate seem improbable. For it is a myth that Watergate was stupid because it was unnecessary. It was stupid because it was wrong. But understandably, no one has sought to raise in the President's defense the argument that he would decline a course of action simply because it was wrong...
...hindsight, Sadat appears to have worked with remarkable singlemindedness over the past two years. In 1971 he signed a 15-year friendship treaty with the Soviet Union in the hope that it would lead to a resolution of the impasse with Israel; it did not. Last year, after the Soviet Union failed to give him the offensive weapons he wanted, he expelled some 17,000 Soviet advisers-reportedly on the advice of Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, who reasoned that this setback for the Soviet Union would lead the U.S. to pressure the Israelis into making a compromise...
...Hindsight: the improvement in vision that comes with having been caught redhanded...
...would raise no more money. Nonetheless, he was called to Washington last Jan. 19 to attend a meeting in John Mitchell's office. When he realized that the purpose was to induce him to raise more money for the defendants, Kalmbach testified, he left the meeting. In hindsight, he said, he regarded the work as "an improper, illegal act," and implied that he felt Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean and Mitchell had betrayed...
...asked Dash, as "Attorney General of the United States, why didn't you throw Mr. Liddy out of your office?" Responded Mitchell coolly: "Well, I think, Mr. Dash, in hindsight I not only should have thrown him out of the office, I should have thrown him out of the window." Persisted Dash: "Well, since you did neither [laughter], why didn't you at least recommend that Mr. Liddy be fired?" Again Mitchell agreed: "Well, in hindsight, I probably should have done that...