Word: second-guessing
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...machinations may backfire because historians may judge harshly a man who has tried so hard to second-guess them. Bush's efforts to prewrite the historical chronicles have been too blatant, too public. His attempts to seem statesmanlike instead paint the picture of the antithesis of a statesman: a politician too narrow in spirit to move beyond himself...
Bailey told the audience of approximately 100 students in Austin Hall that television cameras allow the public to second-guess its legal institutions...
...pointless to second-guess Bush for not taking the other path. It is even more futile to wonder how the Middle East might look after an allied victory. Unintended consequences are a by-product of any action. The only certainty is that nothing could be worse than for Saddam to prevail. The possibility of other bad actors filling a postwar power vacuum will simply have to be met later on a case-by-case basis, or perhaps through the eventual convocation of a peace conference that would address both the Israeli- Palestinian conflict and the region's massive overarmament...
...could have let the sanctions continue without setting a deadline for Iraq's departure from Kuwait. But with decision time at hand, it seems pointless to second-guess President Bush. If war breaks out, it will not be an accident. Both sides would rather fight than switch...
...second-guess the coaches,"Lazarre-White said. "The bottom line is you can'trun it if you can't throw it, and you can't throwit if you can't run it. We couldn't run it today,so we didn't even try to throw until the secondhalf...