Word: hindsights
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...hindsight, we would have covered the event anyway," he said...
Anyone could have predicted the outcome of last week's race for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Massachusetts. Sure, hindsight makes Mark Roosevelt '78 an easy pick, but a lot more than politics went into...
...possible in hindsight to entertain hypothetical doubt about whether an invasion of the Japanese home islands would have been absolutely necessary at that stage of the war. Perhaps the Japanese would have submitted, although nothing in experience predicted that. One may argue whether the nuclear bombs really saved a million or two or more lives, Japanese and American, that might have been lost in a protracted endgame. But sometimes hindsight is decadent and a little fatuous...
...limited to criminal violations and that "we express no opinion on the propriety" of the contacts or whether they "constitute a breach of ethical rules or standards." Cutler reiterated last week a sentiment the President conceded in March. "Some of these contacts," he said, "may have been inadvisable, in hindsight...
...perspective from 50 years matches Eisenhower's assessment. He may not have handled his crusade in Europe perfectly, because nothing in war goes precisely according to plan. But those who look back and say he could have defeated Hitler sooner are playing games with history and hindsight. In the tumult of battle, with colleagues second-guessing him and comrades dying by the hundreds every day, Dwight Eisenhower made decisions that won the war in Europe and established a peace that prevails today...