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Whether or not this attitude is morally vacant and ultimately self-defeating, as its critics charge, it's hard to see how anyone who seriously holds these views, whatever you call them, could really have had much to argue about with the America Firsters in the late 1930s.
Op-ed writers cautioned against "a self-defeating freeze on the peace process," called Arafat a "partner" in the "fight against terrorism," and observed that "Israeli terrorists"--namely, mass-murderer Baruch Goldstein and assassin Yigal Amir--had staged attacks "aimed at halting the peace process."
If Hussein's goal is not so much to shoot down a U.S. plane as to keep the no-fly zones in the news, his strategy may be self-defeating: The LAT puts the story above the fold, but repetition is driving it inside elsewhere--page 12 at USAT , page 29 at the Post .
The NYT 's "Week in Review" has a funny compilation of stories about self-defeating behavior in job interviews.
The diversion will be at least partly self-defeating.