Word: hindsight
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...just hand-waving for now. If a long string of "ifs" can be laid to rest, today's achievement may be seen a real step forward - but one that's only visible in hindsight...
...things that makes terrorism so difficult to prevent is it's designed to strike targets you don't really expect, or can't predict because they only look different from thousands of other potential targets in hindsight," says a French counter-terrorism official. "That's one reason why extremists haven't gone after political leaders often: those are the holders of real power everyone expects jihadists would want to kill...
...leaving passengers confused. The government opted for a "big bang" approach: Six million Santiaguinos took their last bus ride home on February 9 in one transport system, and then were expected to find their way to work and school on February 10 in an entirely new one. Wisdom of hindsight suggests incremental changes may have been less traumatic...
...public often assumes that what we do not know about the operations of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) cannot hurt us. Indeed, we hope that the CIA may protect us. Yet time and time again, hindsight has revealed that this trust was misplaced, as troubling facts about the CIA and its practices have come to light. These are trespasses for which the agency offers no apology, only evasion and qualification. The destruction of videotapes depicting the interrogation of terrorist operatives represents the latest in a series of violations of public trust in what seems like a return to the disconcerting...
...bigness’ of modern organizations”, both government and business, with paralyzing his peers. Their concern with their eroding autonomy as members of American society, he wrote, “applied to political activity but, even more importantly, to career choices.” In hindsight, the consequences of the choices these college-aged activists made are disillusioning for those who look on the 1960s as a golden age of social progressivism. A feasible way to link youthful service with a lifetime commitment to social consciousness still eludes college students, as it did 40 years...