“This looks shortsightedly self-serving: it is a sop from Lula to his party's left-wing, which disagrees with his economic policies.”
“And, having shortsightedly kept Turkey out of the European Union, the West is scarcely qualified to complain.”
“This situation is not helped, however, by the Communist propaganda against political meetings and demonstrations, which it shortsightedly denigrates as wasting time, when in reality these are a schooling in democracy.”