Meanings of shortsighted policy in English

The critics all cite the same reason: the biofuels "craze" as a wrong-headed, shortsighted policy that has to change.

No more shortsighted policy can be imagined than, in the fancied interest of one class, to prevent the education of another class.

The order was at first refused, as it was then the shortsighted policy of the British Government to maintain a monopoly of mechanical contrivances.

War is always wrong; going to war is necessarily a phase of a shortsighted policy; every wrong act is, of course, an unwise act.

Ignoring the reality of tax erodes the tax base, distorts economic decisions and through shortsighted policy enriches the few at the expense of the many.

Shortsighted policy choices, such as trade negotiations with the US, simply cannot be more important.