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There is no irony of statement intended here, yet the sentence neatly defeats its purpose.
He asks whether the resisters were driven by genuine dislike of Hitler and his ideas, or whether they decided that Hitler was superfluous only after his string of victories turned into a string of defeats.
The headline, "GOP Leadership Defeats Campaign Reform Bill," is getting to be right up there with "Extremist Group Claims Credit for Bombing" and "Union Officials Indicted in New Jersey."
Just as index-fund investing defeats this purpose, so too does trading based on anything other than an evaluation of a company's underlying prospects for the future.
The common missile warning system detects missiles in flight, and the advanced threat infrared countermeasure defeats the missile