This staggering amount is the result of decades of short-sighted policy and underfunding.

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Will we continue the often hypocritical and short-sighted policy in the Muslim world of making our "enemy's enemy" into our friend?

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Rashwan said such a policy is as short-sighted as the U.S. isolation of Syria.

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The culprit here is the short-sighted, politically charged, irresponsible economic policy of the government, forcing up inflation, drying up investment, and triggering capital flight with each successive bad idea.

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Lynn Dang, a former IBM employee posted to Facebook that the policy is silly and short-sighted for three reasons.

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Dangerous, short-sighted and historically ignorant are all apt descriptions of a policy that fails to invest in the U.S. military in peacetime.

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