Word: shortsightedness
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Either course would be shortsighted, obviously. But what we need is to achieve some balance here. The best way, I think, to achieve that balance is to have a system of accountability.
U.S. POLICY in Southern Africa has always been characterized by varying combinations of deceit, naivete, and open disregard for the cause of justice--all based on shortsighted conceptions of American strategic and economic interests. U.S. policy in Angola provides the most egregious example. The U.S. made a practical analysis that...
Even with extensive streamlining, two weak companies will find it difficult to equal one strong firm, and Bell's decision could prove to be shortsighted. It simply delays yet again long-overdue industry rationalization and perpetuates the old problem of obsolete, high-cost steel plants that require special help...
Because of a combination of Saudi oil blackmail and Carter/Brzezinski's shortsighted appeasement policy and apologetic propaganda, the Saudis will now get their military jets. But what that country, which still publicly beheads men and stones women to death, really needs is a 20th century criminal code and not...
There was also tough talk in Washington as the Carter Administration stepped up its criticism of Moscow for meddling in Africa. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski harshly denounced the Soviets for violating the "code of detente" and for making a "shortsighted attempt to exploit global difficulties." Brzezinski and other U.S...