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In addition to causing death and destruction, terrorism can have a significant psychological impact on voters and electoral outcomes.
The sources of instability include not only the threat of weapons of mass destruction, but also – and more immediately – efforts to alter the territorial status quo through force or coercion.
It is this unique brand of creative
destruction
that marks the university as one of our greatest entrepreneurial organizations.
The implications vary, with a much higher probability of adaptation, including through a relatively orderly process of creative
destruction
and re-creation, for private entities compared to public ones.
The original stated end of removing weapons of mass
destruction
could have been achieved at much lower cost, had such weapons in fact existed.
Moreover, contemporary problems – for example, thwarting the spread of materials and weapons of mass destruction, maintaining an open world economy, slowing climate change, and combating terrorism – cannot be managed, much less solved, by any single country.
In return, new arrangements should call on emerging countries to contribute more to addressing climate change, paying for peacekeeping and state-building, promoting free trade, and sanctioning those who support terror or develop weapons of mass
destruction.
Yet at the same time, the corporate sector lobbies aggressively to gut environmental regulations, slash corporate-tax rates, and avoid their own responsibility for ecological
destruction.
It was a miscalculation comparable to that of his predecessor, George W. Bush, who launched an invasion of Iraq on the erroneous assumptions not only that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, but also – and more important – that post-Saddam Iraq would quickly become a stable democracy.
Similarly, in Kenya, President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga signed a power-sharing agreement following elections in January 2008 that were marred by widespread irregularity, violence, and
destruction.
Abe recognizes the new challenges posed by proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction
and terrorism, and has acknowledged the rising expectation, at home and abroad, that Japan’s contribution to international security must grow.
But the “war on terror” did not warrant the decision to attack a sovereign state and topple its government on the flawed presumption that it housed weapons of mass
destruction
and was linked to the 2001 attacks.
Much like creative destruction, evolution preserves what works, discards what does not, and sometimes adds new, disruptive features.
But, unless the international community –particularly the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council – begins to fulfill its obligations in Syria, money will not be enough to prevent further chaos and
destruction.
Nowadays, instruments of mass
destruction
are smaller, cheaper, and more readily available.
This escalation occurred without using weapons of mass
destruction.
Just a few weeks ago, it was feared that Syria’s crumbling regime might transfer part of its arsenal of weapons of mass
destruction
to Hezbollah, or that some of that arsenal might fall into jihadis’ hands.
The dossier by former British spy Christopher Steele about US President Donald Trump’s activities in Moscow some years ago may turn out to be as credible as the claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass
destruction
– or it may not.
The environmental
destruction
of the delta is part of a larger saga: corrupt companies operating hand in hand with corrupt government officials.
Despite these vast differences, it is possible to draw some conclusions:Effects following
destruction
of infrastructure.
These include burning oil wells, along with chemical or radioactive spills from bombed factories or storage facilities, bacterial contamination of water when sewage treatment systems are destroyed, and flooded or dessicated lands following the
destruction
of dams and irrigation systems;Effects of physical or chemical impact on land cover.
And as reputation becomes more vital, political struggles over the creation and
destruction
of credibility multiply.
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.
We will further increase our cooperation in preventing the spread of weapons of mass
destruction
and in dealing with the consequences should prevention fail.
Today, in a strategic environment marked by terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Russia is very much part of the solution.
Companies that store or transmit consumer data would assume greater responsibility for illegal intrusion, damage, or
destruction.
The Environmental Effect of TsunamisReports about the tsunamis that devastated Southeast Asia barely a month ago have understandably been dominated by tales of death, suffering, and the physical
destruction
of infrastructure.
Other reports have mentioned wildlife that escaped the destruction, as some sort of instinct seemed to tell them to seek higher ground prior to the arrival of the tsunami waves.
This is particularly true of fish stocks, owing to large-scale
destruction
to fisheries.
The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose…” But governments will resort to inflation before they will allow another Great Depression – we just would very much rather not go there, if there is any alternative way to restore employment and production.
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