Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
We do not agree that hindsight is required. The risks of internal strife in Iraq, active Iranian pursuit of its interests, regional instability, and al-Qaeda activity in Iraq, were each explicitly identified before the invasion.
Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.
I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
You can't operate by hindsight.