Hindsight is 20/20. It's obviously very easy to look back on something and say what someone should have done, or that you can't believe so-and-so said or did a particular thing. Here's a pro tip for you though, it doesn't help the current situation... like at all.

Every one of us has said something that turned out not to come to fruition, or worse yet that we've had to walk back. Stuff that could not stand up to the test of time. Sometimes you realize it as soon as it leaves your lips, other times it might be days, weeks, or even years before it comes back to bite you in the butt. Check out this list of people who said or posted things online that aged like fine milk and ended up making them look really bad after the fact.