The United States, accurately describing migration as a Global Issue and playing a leading role in the efforts for peace in Syria, could contribute significantly to containing the effects of the refugee crisis, itself a repercussion of conflicts in Syria and Iraq, which threatens to spread instability further.
All indications from Washington were that the administration remained opposed to getting involved in the Middle East, and that General Zinni was going only because repercussions of the conflict had begun to spill outside Israeli borders.
And while the global repercussions of the conflict are usually discussed in terms of the maneuvers of Britain and France, here we have a proclamation of neutrality by King Kamehameha IV of Hawaii; still more exotically, in a bound volume we see a letter from the United States ambassador to the Chinese foreign minister, Prince Kung, translated into Chinese.
But in a sign of the widening repercussions of the conflict in Georgia, those concerns were cast aside, as the offensive by Russia's military across its borders was viewed around the world as a sign of Moscow's determination to reimpose its influence across the old Soviet bloc.
Some nervousness remains, with Standard & Poor's placing its ratings on the sultanate and some Omani companies, including Oman Power & Water Procurement, on CreditWatch on March 17 with negative implications, since "possible repercussions of regional conflicts could increase political risks in Oman, which might also negatively affect economic growth and public finances".
Obama's speech in Estonia was largely detached from recent developments in the conflict, as he gave a more discursive assessment of the broader repercussions of this year's conflict in Ukraine, a confrontation the White House believes has led to the most significant clash between Russia and the west since the end of the cold war.
If Congress approves yet another war against ISIS, does the VA's budget of $168.8 billion include the repercussions of a future conflict?
The last thing that he needs now is a confessional conflict, the repercussions of which could be a game changer.
That adage is often invoked in an effort to limit the repercussions of the country's many internal conflicts.
