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But that one is easy: it should be used with restraints designed to minimize civilian casualties.
Policymakers normally respond to recessions by cutting interest rates, reducing taxes, and boosting transfers to the unemployed and other casualties of the downturn.
American leadership has been one of the war’s casualties.
Indeed, instigating and supporting long-term change is a far more complicated undertaking than treating the casualties of broken systems.
America Shoots ItselfOne of the casualties of the war against terrorism--or, rather, of the way the United States is conducting the war--is the US influence in promoting human rights worldwide.
Moreover, the local Turkish population allegedly suffered similar casualties.
In exchange, Kadyrov was to wage war against the remaining Islamist resistance and thus relieve Moscow of the burden of shedding Russian blood, or at least minimize the cost in Russian casualties.
There are two certain casualties.
Both the uprising and the Indian security forces’ response have caused widespread casualties and destruction of property, all but wrecking Kashmir’s economy, which depends largely on tourism and handicrafts.
And since bombing is liable to produce rising casualties among civilians, even the simple continuation of the bombing may be difficult to sustain.
The casualties of our failure to do so will be future generations of flood victims in Asia and China, farmers in drought-hit Russia and Africa, and everyone’s grandchildren, like my five, with whom I have spent this summer.
Those who are fighting to prevent those deaths deserve protection, not to become further casualties.
They cannot quite grasp how European demonstrators can denounce Israel’s wars as “genocide” – a term that has never been applied to the Syrian hecatomb, the obliteration of Grozny by Russia, the 500,000 casualties in Iraq since the United States-led invasion in 2003, or US airstrikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In fact, since 1882, the entire Arab-Jewish/Israeli conflict has produced barely half the number of casualties that Syria has in just three years.
Syrian, Libyan, and Yemenite victims are faceless; the lionization of the incomparably fewer Gazan casualties makes them unique.
Airstrikes anywhere risk civilian casualties – and thus the possibility of inflaming the very sentiments one is trying to counter.
The Flawed Origins of Expansionary AusterityCAMBRIDGE – Several of my Harvard University colleagues have recently been casualties in the crossfire between fiscal “austerians” and fiscal stimulators.
The hope is that economic sanctions, together with Russian casualties on the ground, will force Russia humbly to accept its post-Cold War status as a third-rate power, while sending the additional message that any effort to revise the US-led world order is doomed to fail – with serious economic costs.
One reason is that Syria has a substantial air-defense system, which would have to be suppressed by a bombing campaign – causing significant civilian casualties and risking the loss of aircraft and crews.
And, as is often the case in this kind of war, most of the casualties are civilian bystanders.
And, because the violence tends to come in dribs and drabs – rarely since 2004 has any one day’s casualties reached double figures – the South has never risen back up the news agenda.
Today, the emerging economies of Latin America could become some of the first casualties in the economic crossfire between the United States and China.
They can help steer the world toward coordinated recovery and save many emerging economies from becoming innocent casualties in other people’s wars.
Asia has suffered more casualties from the rise of international terrorism than any other region.
As Goldstone's report makes clear:Both the Palestinians and the Israelis are legitimately angered at the lives that they are forced to lead: For the Palestinians, the anger about individual events – the civilian casualties, injuries and destruction in Gaza following from military attacks, the blockade, the continued construction of the Wall outside of the 1967 borders – feed into an underlying anger about the continuing Israeli occupation, its daily humiliations and their as-yet-unfulfilled right to self-determination.
The press fought back tenaciously, despite casualties.
One of the main casualties is the tradable sector in China, where domestic demand remains inadequate to cover the shortfall and prevent a slowdown in GDP growth.
The United States cannot sustain the current rate of casualties (either American or Iraqi), or the expense.
And Japan has so far failed to live up to its treaty obligations to clean up between 700,000 and two million chemical weapons that were abandoned in China by the Japanese army at the end of World War II, another potential flash point if any of these weapons causes casualties in China.
Nor is it conceivable that the US or Britain would have been called to account by the Geneva Commission, itself composed by some of the most brutal abusers in the world, for the massive casualties they inflicted on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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