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The hope of breaking Nazi power while preserving Germany from the destiny of utter
destruction
and bloodshed that awaited it in the last months of the war was a noble one, even if in the end it proved to be unrealistic.
In the case of enforcing the no-fly zone, Resolution 1973 allows the destruction, by aircraft or missile, of any loyalist jet or helicopter that takes off, any pro-Qaddafi forces’ anti-aircraft batteries or missile-launch sites, and the disabling of any airstrip.
Scariest on the black-swan list is a terrorist attack with weapons of mass
destruction.
And, as usual, the consequences – environmental destruction, damage to health, and impeded development – are disproportionately affecting the world’s poor.
The
destruction
of Venezuela must be stopped urgently if its viability as a state and a society is to be reestablished.
Failure to comply would then justify less conventional mechanisms to halt the suffering and
destruction
of Venezuela.
By doing so, they were accomplices in a criminal regime that was guilty of mass murder, and in the end the
destruction
of their country.
Beyond this, international forces must secure and eliminate all weapons of mass destruction; prevent ethnic and religious tensions from erupting into violence; ensure that none of Iraq's neighbors exacerbates an already volatile situation.
The challenges posed by Iran are clear_cut: it is developing weapons of mass
destruction
and has a history of supporting terror.
Joseph Schumpeter’s phrase “creative destruction,” his definition of entrepreneurship, aptly describes this process.
In this sense, the heart of the university is located in its curriculum committee, as the mechanism by which research is regularly translated into teaching, generating new cycles of creative
destruction.
But America's automakers love their gas-guzzlers, and Bush's oil industry pals want no interference with their
destruction
of the planet's atmosphere.
In Iraq, Bush again pursued a unilateralist agenda, saying that there was incontrovertible evidence of a link with Al Queda, and that Saddam had weapons of mass
destruction.
This is not a correction; it is
destruction.
Reductions in Germany’s armed forces and disavowal of weapons of mass
destruction
were written into the treaties that reunified Germany.
The previous
destruction
of productive capacity has come home to roost.
China cannot complete its transformation from an export-led economy to one driven by domestic consumption and services unless value creation through innovation exceeds value
destruction
from excess capacity.
In the face of the familiar litany of desperate global problems – not just financial instability, but also climate change, energy insecurity, potential pandemics, terrorism, and the spread of weapons of mass
destruction
– the prospect of a rudderless world is more than alarming.
But AQAP thrives in an environment of
destruction
and despair, so there is little that can be done about the group so long as Yemen is being ripped apart by war.
America and Europe Divided Over SaddamTalk is growing of a change in US defense doctrine to allow for pre-emptive strikes on states that harbor weapons of mass
destruction.
The common aim should be to remove the threat posed by a dictator with so well-documented a predilection for weapons of mass
destruction.
Moreover, Saddam may already possess a weapon of mass
destruction
but has been deterred from using it.
The
destruction
of people and organizations was perceived as a step in the right direction.
Under the current paradigm, as argued by Harvard’s Joseph Nye, this would imply the unilateral
destruction
of America’s most important source of “smart” power.
By contrast, the trouble with using military force to punish is that necessity and proportionality cannot easily be applied to the calculus: a slap on the wrist would trivialize the gravity of the offense, while large-scale intervention would wreak death and
destruction
on many who are innocent.
In fact, it could even exacerbate those challenges: for example, the ecological
destruction
and resource scarcity brought about by climate change is likely to fuel conflict and instability, spurring ever-more migration.
The Bank of England’s latest Inflation Report reckons that UK productivity is 10% below pre-crisis trends, owing to low investment and a slowdown of the Schumpeterian process of creative
destruction.
Were the roles reversed, a downstream China would have stridently accused an upstream India of exacerbating flood-related death and
destruction
by breaching its international obligations.
This opens the way for even more death, destruction, and suffering, while discrediting the world order to which we solemnly committed when the UN was established.
But in the face of conflicts that are producing widespread death and destruction, the UN and its power players have a responsibility – as stated in the UN Charter – to do everything possible to restore peace.
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