Question regarding the usage of past tense in a rhetorical situation

[Itakmar]

Dear Teachers,

I have recently sent an email containing this sentence portion within it :
In the case of X I would personally consider it a great miss if for some reason we weren't able to Y.

Upon several readings of this email (but regrettably after I have sent it) it occurred to me that I may have made a mistake by using "weren't" which is the past tense of "were" - because I am describing an action that will occur in the future. However, then I realized that I am using a rhetorical case - "If blah blah"... So now I am at a loss because my intuition tells me I am wrong but the literary tool I used in my sentence could bend it back into the realm of the acceptable.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you may provide.

Cordially,

Itamar

 

[Tdol]

Tense and time are not the same in English- we can use the past tense to talk about the future. There's not need to regret sending your email- the second conditional you're using can refer to the present of the future, and is correct here.