The road to reform means more job cuts, lower food rations, higher prices — more risk of popular resentment.
Rand, a Middle East expert who covered Yemen for the State Department under Obama, said, "The longer this war goes on, the longer there's a risk of deep resentment against the United States that will be radicalizing and lead to full-strain extremism".
More importantly, the notion that Geithner's tax problems run the risk of triggering populist resentment via a perceived double standard is flawed; the public is consistently reminded of the double-standards of all politicians: Bill Clinton's womanizing, Christian Republicans' own moral failings, Spitzer, Vitter, Ted Stevens, John Edwards.
Otherwise we risk the resentment of the old, the frustration of the young and the anger of the poorest.
In my experience, this mutually voluntary risk is rarely a source of resentment on the part of fixers.
No matter what, this party will come out of this hurt, at risk of being split, and full of resentments and possible vendettas.
"We ignore this growing sense of resentment at our peril".
Studies at Duke University show that having feelings of resentment are as dangerous as smoking in risks for heart attacks and stroke.
"If I don't embrace my child's culture," said Ms. Rosenberg, who has a 30-year-old daughter adopted from Korea, "then I run the risk of denying it, which would cause resentment and identity issues.
Always content to do what they are told; always consigned to work on the "dull, dirty, dangerous" jobs; often uneasily aware that they are superior in some ways to their masters; endlessly at risk of pogrom because of their masters' resentment and fear of them: his robot stories, and those of his successors, were immigrant stories.
