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Even with a bunch of terrorists conveniently assembled in a single spot, the cruise missile strike in Afghanistan was self-defeating: It no doubt guaranteed Osama Bin Laden 10 new recruits for every terrorist who was killed.
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.
The diversion will be at least partly self-defeating.
The plan is magnificently self-defeating.
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."