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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.
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.
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.
(This is partly why the Merrill ads, which seem to want to be clever, end up seeming weirdly self-defeating.)