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In retrospect, can you blame them?

At least since the U.S.-EU split over the 2003 invasion of Iraq — in retrospect, the most obvious early symptoms of the impending transatlantic divorce — “antagonism toward Europe has been shaped by a highly sexualized binary opposition of American masculine potency to European feminine feebleness.”

Indeed, the annals of stock market commentaries are replete with prognostications that, in retrospect, were almost comically wrong.

“In retrospect,” he said, he recognized that the change “created an undue burden on the people of Maine, which was not the intent.”

In retrospect, Johnnie said he wasn’t even a lawyer.