Word: retrospective
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...October 2000, and the identification of Attash as the operational commander, the CIA realized that the Malaysia meeting was more significant than had been previously thought and began looking for Attash and others who had been there. The agency assumed the meeting had been about the Cole plot. In retrospect, some officials speculate the presence of two 9/11 hijackers means the Atta plan was also discussed...
Tragically, most of these slaughters are only visible in retrospect due to the opacity and isolation of these regimes during their rule. Thus, we should be watchful for contemporary states that are masking dangerous usurpations of political power, such as in Venezuela, Zimbabwe, China, Turkmenistan, Sudan and Mauritania, to name a few. Recent regimes in Uganda, Burundi and Indonesia have murdered hundreds of thousands of their own citizens...
...Although I was quite surprised to hear that Zev had just won a major multi-tiered regional surfing competition that included several professional surfers, in retrospect I shouldn’t have been,” he wrote in an e-mail. “Zev reminds us that it is possible to be a first-rate scientist, a first-rate athlete, and a down-to-earth person at the same time...
...Infantry Division crossed the border from Kuwait, Special Forces teams entered the Iraq. One of their primary missions was to establish the conditions and train fighters for a revolt in the Shia areas in the south of the country. But they failed to spark the anticipated revolt. In retrospect, it's easy to see why; the Shia have been burned before by what they thought were U.S. promises of support. A Shia rebellion against Saddam in the aftermath of the first Gulf War was brutally suppressed, and no one here, remembering the tens of thousands killed then, was willing...
...nightmarish—I’ve never been punished for anything. In other words, I’ve never had my heart broken. The one time that I was really betrayed in a relationship, I saw it as a story to tell my best friends and in retrospect the event has become more of a learning experience than an emotional moment of any significance in my life. (Plus, I got back at her a little by cutting off all communication and reading with delight her five e-mails begging and pleading me to respond...