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"One of the unfortunate consequences of our bombing seems to have been to unleash a bloodbath, where the Serbs, military, paramilitary, are storming into Kosovo and driving people away," Tim Russert declared on Meet the Press . "Some are suggesting that the first phase of the air campaign has only intensified the alleged ethnic cleansing, the atrocities being committed in Kosovo," Wolf Blitzer added on Late Edition . On Face the Nation , Bob Schieffer suggested that NATO's bombing "has simply backfired."
Livingston's resignation has also backfired by diverting public attention from perjury back to sex.
Corollary: The "circuit breakers," which suspended trading, backfired.
Sources say that Maître-Créche's unusually stiff sentence resulted from a legal ploy that backfired.
Furthermore, the GOP's resignation-by-example argument has backfired.