Word: unforeseens
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...required to accomplish the "regime change" the Bush Administration seeks, many months will be required to assemble troops, replenish stocks of precision bombs and redirect the intelligence assets now deployed to Afghanistan's shooting war. But European governments are already anxious about Bush's intentions - a fear of unforeseen consequences that has only been sharpened by the death last week of two German and three Danish peacekeepers who were defusing a missile in Afghanistan, and the participation of some 200 special forces from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany and Norway, and flyers from France, as American ground troops led an assault...
...referendum lowering the income tax from 5.85 percent to 5 percent. Voters who supported the measure were casting their ballots under very different economic circumstances, and it is the responsibility of our leaders to make sure that policy is able to be flexible enough to adapt to completely unforeseen events...
...Barring the unforeseen, nobody is going to come close to him,” Haggerty said...
...steered passenger planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, peace wasn?t one of them. But the shockwaves that rippled across the globe after the attacks on New York and Washington didn?t just bring war. Last week they proved to have one unforeseen, positive effect as changing attitudes to terrorism helped push the faltering Northern Ireland peace process decisively forward...
However, the apparent hypocrisy in some Muslim nations’ calls for peace during Ramadan is not the primary reason the United States should continue to pursue its objectives in Afghanistan. This is not a war about religion; it is a war about eradicating terrorism. Unforeseen complications and unintended consequences play a role in every war. In this case, damage has already been inflicted on the civilian populace of Afghanistan; several hospitals and a United Nations facility have been destroyed by bombs. Despite these unfortunate effects of the bombing campaign, America’s first priority has remained achieving...