A newly created unified command could be more susceptible to pressures to overlook the intricacies of Africa's varied settings, with consequences that would benefit neither American nor African interests.
Choose consequences that will benefit you in some way.
In everyday practice, dentists face clinical decisions for which they need to consider both treatment consequences (that is, benefits and harms) and costs.
If this is the case, our experience with methotrexate over the last 30 years is that there are almost no significant long-term consequences and that benefits clearly outweigh risks.
In the absence of an answer, the events unfolding in Afrin, and what might follow, will continue to throw up consequences that can only benefit the interests of others.
Disclosure, though frequently valuable, often leads to adverse unintended consequences that can outweigh its benefits.
"These are huge mistakes with consequences that far outweigh the benefits because they make us feel better about how Russians interfered in the election," Gidari said.
The potential benefits and consequences that could result from further reliance on, and changes in, technology.
And of course when he says "the freedom to choose what to eat, drink, smoke and a lot of other things -- and to accept the benefits and consequences that go with these choices," he sounds a lot like... well, me.
The freedom to choose what to eat, drink, smoke and a lot of other things -- and to accept the benefits and consequences that go with these choices -- are the wedge issues that government uses to snake its way into new areas of our lives.
