Bush's confused and self-defeating policies towards Lebanon are a direct consequence of his policies towards Israel and the Palestinians.

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Self-defeating policies of the kind she discusses aren't exceptional in human affairs.

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Democrats wasted trillions on silly, self-defeating welfare programs and Republicans matched them on silly, self-defeating foreign policies.

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U. handouts that were mostly squandered on fostering unsustainable real estate bubbles and self-defeating energy policies.

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Currently, many people who would create more value than the Luxembourgian standard want to work in the United States and could work here, but for economically self-defeating immigration policies.

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Badly designed policies can be self-defeating.

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