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Being out of step has
consequences.
Every percentage-point fall in growth has direct social consequences, whether on nutrition levels, infant mortality, or school attendance.
American RetreatsLos Angeles – As Barack Obama’s incoming administration debates the pace and
consequences
of withdrawal from Iraq, it would do well to examine the strategic impact of other American exits in the final decades of the twentieth century.
While Lebanon and Somalia remain damaged and failed states, respectively, regional and domestic factors have cauterized the
consequences
of America’s retreat from Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
The
Consequences
of Angela MerkelLONDON – Germany has been leading the opposition in the European Union to any write-down of troubled eurozone members’ sovereign debt.
The point to which Keynes kept returning was that the attempt to extract debt payments over many years would have disastrous social
consequences.
This raises the question of justice, but not the economic
consequences
of insisting on payment.
In the 1920’s, Germany ended up having to pay only a small fraction of its reparation bill, but the long time it took to get to that point prevented the full recovery of Europe, made Germany itself the most conspicuous victim of the Great Depression, and bred widespread resentment, with dire political
consequences.
Economists call such events “shocks” precisely because they come unexpectedly and can have far-reaching
consequences.
This otherwise successful minority group must not become mired in the
consequences
of an unhealthy diet, especially at a time when the majority of the population is more aware than ever of the dangers.
If a half-century of experience in the US is an accurate guide, the waistlines of Asian consumers – in Asia and America – are poised to expand in step with the fast-food industry’s increasingly ethnic-focused marketing, with serious potential health
consequences.
But staying out will produce nearly the same result and dramatically shake America’s credibility in a crisis-ridden region, with serious
consequences
for the future.
If the US had not responded to the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons, the entire world would have asked what a US guarantee is worth if an American president’s “red line” is crossed without
consequences.
In Jerusalem, Tehran, and other Middle East capitals, as well as on the Korean Peninsula and in other global hotspots, the
consequences
would be (and probably already are) dire.
The latter goal would shift the axis of US policy in the Middle East, with far-reaching strategic consequences, because such a compromise could only be reached at the expense of America’s Sunni allies.
The best "serious
consequences"
of which the UN Security Council has warned should Iraq fail to comply with its obligations would be an even more intense effort to destroy its illicit weapons through continuous inspections of the country's offensive military capabilities: inspectors, not invaders.
The same is true of nuclear power, although there are always concerns that a severe accident could have major human and environmental
consequences.
To ensure that nuclear facilities are operated to the highest standards of safety, measures are in place, for example, to control the release of radioactive material to the environment, to prevent the occurrence of events that might lead to a loss of control over a nuclear reactor core, and to mitigate the
consequences
of such events if they were to occur.
The Western Roots of Anti-Western TerrorBERLIN – The Islamic State’s horrific attacks in Paris provide a stark reminder that Western powers cannot contain – let alone insulate themselves from – the unintended
consequences
of their interventions in the Middle East.
Simply put, nearly every Western intervention this century has had unforeseen consequences, which have spilled over borders and ultimately prompted another intervention.
The risk of adverse unintended
consequences
– whether terrorist blowback, as in Paris, or military spillovers, as in Syria – is unjustifiably high.
As a result, the potential
consequences
of China’s rise remain ambiguous.
But strategic ambiguity and uncertain operational
consequences
have hindered the ASB since its inception.
Practically speaking, this would overturn the balance of power in the Middle East, with grave
consequences
well beyond the region; morally, it would be a cruel betrayal of the Syrian opposition and a boon to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The failure of US leadership has global
consequences.
In order to limit the
consequences
of disagreement, Americans should explain their position and offer alternatives when a proposed international arrangement is deemed undesirable.
At the same time, natural scientists must become better educated to work effectively with engineers, public administrators, and social scientists (for example, economists, demographers, and psychologists) to communicate the
consequences
of scientific findings, especially when high risks are involved.
This has significant human and economic
consequences.
Moreover, what seem like obvious, commonsense policy solutions all too often have unintended consequences, because a policy’s targets are not passive objects, as in physics, but active agents who react in unpredictable ways.
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger captured the allure in recent testimony: “The subject of nuclear arms control grew out of the seemingly paradoxical effort of those who had created the largest and most destructive arsenals to avoid by negotiation the ultimate
consequences
of their own decisions.”
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