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Other neighbors would also pay a price should the Taliban’s seemingly invariable return turn bloody, however immune they believe they are.
Indeed, the bloody irony is that the strategy is utterly counter-productive; the people of the tribal areas, with their warrior past, end up joining the militants, justifying their actions as jihad against the forces occupying Afghanistan and their helpers in Pakistan.
There were anxieties, too, that the increasing loss of legitimacy of Arab nationalist regimes would benefit radical Islamists - fears confirmed by Algeria's bloody civil war of the 1990's.
But they won’t succeed without a struggle - that may in turn be long and bloody.
Ever since its bloody repression of the Igbo secession bid in the late 1960’s, Nigeria’s military has prided itself on its ability to “neutralize” ethno-religious insurgency and preserve the country’s unity.
The Wall Blocking the RoadmapThe roadmap to peace between Israelis and Palestinians faces countless bloody detours.
Israel and Palestine have become, he said, the hopeless and bloody prism through which American diplomacy often seems to see the world.
Every bloody day of bombings and executions in Iraq reminds Arabs that the Iranians are neither Arab nor Sunni.
And the Tiananmen Square Massacre, to name but one bloody event in China’s recent past, has been officially forgotten.
Ongoing conflicts, such as Syria’s bloody civil war and Russia’s annexation of Crimea and intervention in Eastern Ukraine, directly affect EU member states’ security, economies, and societies.
But, without Mandela’s towering moral and political leadership, the transition would have been long, ugly, and bloody beyond measure.
So when resettling comfortably in the Kremlin in 2012, Putin should take a moment to re-read Alexander Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter, a novella about the bloody Cossack-led rebellion against Catherine the Great: “God save us from a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless.”
Westernize the Black Sea RegionThe bloody end to the schoolhouse hostage crisis in North Ossetia, and recent clashes in Georgia between government troops and separatist forces, have put the troubled Black Sea region on the front pages of newspapers once again.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s cynical declaration of support for the coup is a sign that some want to turn today’s struggle in the Arab world into a bloody contest between Islamists and secularists.
Wedged awkwardly between China, Russia, and Japan, the Korean Peninsula has long been a bloody battleground for greater powers.
But the South gained these freedoms only in 2005, with the CPA, and only after a huge and bloody conflict.
The religious and ethnic passions of the Sinhalese were encouraged during the final, bloody push that ended Sri Lanka’s quarter-century of civil war with the Tamil Tigers in 2009.
Second, the bloody 1959 revolution in Rwanda, a country mirroring Burundi's ethnic and social structure, induced Burundi's Tutsi to cling even more tightly to power.
In October 1993, the killing by members of the army of Melchior Ndadaye, the first civilian, Hutu, non-Bururi, and democratically elected president provoked a bloody reaction by the Hutu.
Indeed, the conflict between Arabs and Kurds that would follow any partition of Iraq would likely be both bloody and long, and would have profound ramifications in Iran, Turkey, and Syria, with their large Kurdish populations.
In the bloody mountains and ruined cities of Chechnya, Putin established his credentials as the hard man Russia needs to restore order and stop the country's internal disintegration by revitalizing state power.
The Algerian military coup eventually ushered in a bloody civil war that is estimated to have taken more than 200,000 lives.
The Balkan wars of the 1990’s, America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the bloody Arab revolts, and the exposure of Western capitalism’s ethical and systemic flaws in the global economic crisis undercut the idea further.
Like Podemos in Spain, Syriza in Greece, and Jeremy Corbyn in Great Britain, Mélenchon and his “rebellious” followers seem to believe that bloody hands can be excused in the struggle against “imperialism.”
As a fervent supporter of Santos’s human-rights efforts, of his call for a major debate on drug legalization, and of his attempt to end Colombia’s “Forty Years’ War,” I fear that Uribe has fatally wounded the peace process, and will prolong the country’s bloody and fruitless status quo indefinitely.
When bloody conflicts erupted in Transdnistria, Abkhazia, and South-Ossetia, Russia turned its military presence into “peace-keeping” forces as a means of maintaining control.
Israel and Palestine are trapped in a bloody cul-de-sac, which is catastrophic for Palestinians and increasingly dangerous for Israel’s prospects.
A full-scale invasion might well provoke Iraq’s own Kurdish guerrillas into a prolonged and bloody battle with Turkish forces that can only undermine support for Erdogan’s government at home and abroad.
To answer that question, we should consider not just the 1815 Treaty of Vienna, but also the 1648 Peace of Westphalia and the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, each of which in its own way brought to an end a bloody chapter in European history.
In today’s advanced capitalist democracies, most citizens’ obliviousness to this history serves elite interests; otherwise, many more people, if not most, would be screaming bloody murder at increasingly successful efforts to shrink the public sector.
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