Have they had the perverse consequence of driving lesser insurgencies to think of targeting Times Square and American airliners, not just Kabul and Islamabad?
"This would have the perverse consequence of making the deficit worse, as the Government will still have to pay current pensions but will get no benefit from the contributions of those who leave their schemes".
THE Environmental Protection Agency's latest proposed tightening of limits on sulfur in gasoline, and its previous rules, will most likely have the perverse consequence of retarding the development of cars running on batteries, advanced biofuels or hydrogen — all promising but expensive technologies that have not become mass-market products.
Just as the Qaeda leader, in Mr. Bergen's view, misjudged the consequences of the 9/11 attacks — which resulted in his terrorist organization's losing a secure base in Afghanistan — so, he argues, did Mr. Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq have the perverse consequence of breathing "new life into bin Laden's holy war".
Equally, some question whether over-zealous supervision may have had the perverse consequence of driving business and finance away from the public eye.At the forefront of concerned regulators is Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and one of the financial world's most powerful voices.
The new drug coverage could also have the perverse consequence of encouraging private corporations to curtail their own retiree drug plans and dump the burden on Medicare, driving up the cost to taxpayers and leaving some of the elderly with worse coverage than they now have.
The alteration had the "perverse consequence that in some areas there are more larger properties now lying empty and with inadequate smaller housing", it said.
