Sinn Fein, under Adams's controlling leadership, spent the best part of 15 years in an indefatigable effort to engage with the political and religious establishments in London, Dublin and Belfast, all of whom, he says, were hostile to constructive dealings for a variety of selfish or shortsighted reasons.
But for entirely selfish and shortsighted reasons, both Congress and President Hoover went along with the protectionist hysteria.
For whatever shortsighted reasons, newspapers and mainstream media in general give short shrift to the vast output of our great university presses.
Second, by first misrepresenting the extent to which recent European migrants claim benefits, and then by refusing, for obvious and shortsighted political reasons, to release the underlying data until forced to by the media and parliament, the government has damaged its own case.
Paris is being shortsighted for another reason: Reunited Germany will eventually overshadow France in determining how such a force is commanded and deployed.
Capping PSLF at an amount that limits its utility for graduate and professional students is shortsighted for other reasons as well.
For instance, Kenneth Olsen, the founder of the Digital Equipment Corporation, is often cited as having once made a remark that is now considered scandalously shortsighted: "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home".
In the end, like Mr. Friedman, I had convinced myself that war in Iraq was a "war of choice," and a defensible choice at that, the administration's "phony reasons" and shortsighted diplomatic tactics notwithstanding.
Whatever the reason, it is shortsighted.
"Torah" is one of the reasons that the selfish and shortsighted program of widespread Israeli settlement in the West Bank came into being.
