One is that countries are at last getting rid of the self-defeating anti-farmer policies that they imposed at the height of panic over rising food prices in early 2008.

首先，国家最终摆脱了他们在2008年初，在粮价上涨引起的高度恐慌时强制实行的非常不利己的反农民政策。

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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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