There's a term folks use for looking back at decisions made in the past, but using the insight we have from today... It's a pejorative term, meant to suggest that the person is not being fair to use hindsight. They should evaluate the decision based on the information that was available at the time the decision was made.

Ring a bell with anyone?

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Don't ask who the bell's for, dude. It's you.

Revisionist History.

BGnR

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"Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto! You're beautiful!"
"If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster."
"Near the day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky."
"A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans."

Monday morning quarterback

or maybe

20-20 hindsight

> Revisionist History.

Revisionist history is when the Bush administration insists contrary to all evidence that we invaded Iraq to bring freedom and democracy to that country and then censors all government reports suggesting otherwise.

It seems from the description that you're looking for a phrase like "hindsight is 20:20" or something like that?

Revisionist History is when there is unlimited editing for forum posts.

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I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

Revisionist history is it!

Thanks.

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Don't ask who the bell's for, dude. It's you.

I thought it was Democrat Wisdom... darn, I was so close.

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SteveJobs- Are you sure you don't mean Republican pseudo-utopianism? You know, the good old days when children were children, women were women, men were men and sheep were scared?

Boys, boys,
you need to go to the other side.

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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Western Massachusetts