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Unintended Consequences

It is rare that I am stunned into silence.

This is not the world I grew up in. This is not the country I served. These are not the values we were taught as children, in a United States full of post WWII optimism, as we allied with other nations for the greater good.

I am a blessed woman. I have what I need, and my son married a woman with deeply perceptive insights. An environmental specialist, she taught me the concept of Unanticipated Consequences. We are witnessing a host of unanticipated consequence unrolling by the minute, consequences which will have reverberations far into the future – not forseeable consequences but lasting.

Our current Administration is whacko. They command the mightiest military on earth, and they hold the keys to nuclear weapons. I have a friend who says “We’re Doomed,” only he uses a stronger, vulgar word I don’t want to use here.

March 3, 2026 - Posted by intlxpatr | Afghanistan, Character, Civility, corruption, Cross Cultural, Doha, Friends & Friendship, Interconnected, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Leadership, Middle East, Oman, Political Issues, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spiritual, Stranger in a Strange Land | Iraq, Israel