Word: wrongheadedness
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We liberals, who claim to support the underdogs, the oppressed, the wimps of the world, like to argue that the bully is running because in the final analysis he has no moral defense. The United States' actions in Nicaragua are immoral, as well as wrongheaded and antithetical to our interests...
The thread of folly that runs through Barbara Tuchman's books is a filament of doom. In The Guns of August, a wrongheaded French strategy in the first days of World War I leads inexorably to the deadlock of the trenches. The tensions and energies of fin-de-si...
Vice President Mondale had vociferously objected to the speech, arguing that it was both wrongheaded and politically unwise. Confident that voters responded well to negative campaigns, Caddell in 1980 urged Carter to keep attacking Ronald Reagan as a racist and warmonger. The strategy backfired.
Each in his own way vividly symbolized the two contrasting views of the State of the Union. President Reagan led a standing ovation for the heroism in Grenada of Sergeant Stephen Trujillo, an Army Ranger from Denver, "who reminds us what it means to be Americans." Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis...
No mountains. No beaches. No big-league teams. Other than slow-changing seasons, burning summers, bitter winters, and autumns that can be rather a brilliant compensation, only this football team gathers up an entire state of people and brings them to one emotional place. In other regions of the country...