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By calling for the
destruction
of the “Zionist entity,” Iran’s president rubs that raw nerve.
A little more than 60 years after the Shoah, one does not play lightly with such an evocation of
destruction.
Indeed, to continue to fail the world’s at-risk children is to deliver a verdict of wanton inhumanity against ourselves, for we are a knowing party to an entirely preventable mass
destruction
of human life.
Reducing the risk of terrorists obtaining weapons of mass
destruction
equally requires stronger international cooperation.
Fortunately, one of those three, Hurricane Jose, remained mostly at sea, where it did little harm; but Hurricanes Irma and Maria caused widespread
destruction
in the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico.
Warming from any climate pollutant is dangerous and sets in motion a series of potentially irreversible effects, including the continued rise of sea levels,
destruction
of forests, depletion of Arctic sea ice and glaciers in Greenland and the Tibetan Plateau, and melting of permafrost.
This will enable wildlife to move into new environments, escape habitat destruction, and adapt to climate changes.
The Brockton workers were devastated by this move, and by the widespread
destruction
of relatively high-paying blue-collar factory jobs across Southern New England.
And, appealing directly to his many white-supremacist supporters among the so-called alt-right, he has also begun indulging a classic anti-Semitic trope, accusing Clinton of meeting “in secret with international banks to plot the
destruction
of US sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers.”
Would Hitler, wicked as he was, have gone to war had he faced an assured threat of total
destruction?
He then went on to promise the
destruction
of the company, and thus the jobs of its workers: “If they move, watch, it will be the beginning of the end – they surrendered, they quit!
Thus, continuing pain seems likely for ordinary Japanese, whose thrift and productivity ensured that the country rose like a phoenix from its wartime
destruction.
Since then, stability and hope have begun to return to a region affected by the
destruction
of war and the widespread despair of social displacement.
Russia cannot withstand another four years of plunder and
destruction.
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.
As US Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson (who was also the chief US prosecutor at Nuremburg) put it, the constitution is not “a suicide pact” – a sentiment echoed by the Israeli jurist Aharon Barak, who emphasized that “civil rights are not an altar for national destruction.”
NATO peacekeeping troops were not directed to stop the abductions, disappearances, retaliation killings, and massive property
destruction
by groups of ethnic Albanians, which led to a vast reverse ethnic cleansing of the non-Albanian (mainly Serb) population.
This remedy may seem all the more urgent as Russian forces keep inflicting wanton
destruction
on Chechnya.
Another well-known flaw of GDP is that it does not account for value destruction, such as when countries mismanage their human capital by withholding education from certain demographic groups, or by depleting natural resources for immediate economic benefit.
Increasingly, the Republican Party, once a fairly normal political party, has granted itself a license to live in an alternate reality – a world in which George W. Bush did find the weapons of mass
destruction
that he had thought were in Iraq; tax cuts eliminate budget deficits;Obama is not only a Muslim but was born in Kenya and thus should be disqualified from the presidency; and global warming is a hoax concocted by a cabal of socialist scientists.
The goal of Islamic terrorists is nothing less than the
destruction
of the “hegemonic” Western world, despite most Muslim nations’ desire to live in peace within the international community and to cooperate in crafting effective development strategies.
More controversially, it must include strengthened norms proscribing the spread or use of weapons of mass
destruction.
The case of Saddam’s weapons of mass
destruction
is a historic example of a willingness to go to hell with your head held high.
Saddam knew that he didn’t have weapons of mass destruction, but he was unwilling to concede the right of inspectors to ask.
Although nuclear power ranks as a “clean” source of energy, it is accompanied by the terrible shadow of nuclear war, which emerged from Japan’s last reckoning with nuclear catastrophe, 65 years ago at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and which lends it an automatic association with mass
destruction
and death.
When he published The Theory of Economic Development in 1911 at age 28, he emphasized that innovation came from the spirit of entrepreneurs in a process of creative
destruction.
After years of privation (and in many countries the physical
destruction
of war), people just wanted to live normally – to rebuild, own a home, a car, and other consumer goods.
To underline his message, Sadr sent his men to attack the Badr militia, succeeding in Baghdad, where the Mahdis are numerous, but failing in Najaf, where Sadr is hated after the
destruction
caused last year – until his men were massacred by the Americans.
We could easily be “stimulating” and “rescuing” the economy for a rather long time, in ways that only delay the needed adjustment, before we are finally forced to allow the required creative
destruction
to occur.
This was a remarkable confession: these officials evidently believed that their policies had wrecked nearly half of Russia's economic capacity in the space of just a few years--a level of
destruction
not even Hitler's Nazi armies had achieved.
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