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That the region's bloody history is truly behind it seems to have been confirmed by the recent signing of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) with the United States.
When a bloody coup against Corazon Aquino’s fledgling democratic government failed, the leader of the putsch escaped from a floating prison – and then successfully ran for senator.
Nonetheless, within a decade, improvements in Turkey’s democracy have achieved enough to help end the government’s long and bloody conflict with Kurdish separatist groups.
Moreover, these are two peoples that have been intensely engaged in a bloody and intractable conflict for the last century.
For now, the Islamic State's main focus is the creation of its would-be caliphate and the frenetic and bloody effort to force all under its rule to live accordingly.
Moreover, does anyone, for example, want to see China return to the years of bloody warlordism of the early twentieth century?
Egypt’s fears are mainly of Sudan’s disintegration into a chaotic tapestry of mini-states controlled by warlords and plunged into lawlessness and bloody tribal feuds.
He described it as a means for creating a “fusion of interests…that will be the leavening from which may grow a wider and deeper community between countries long opposed to one another by bloody conflicts.”
Ehud Olmert, an especially unpopular prime minister whose days leading the government are probably numbered, lacks the legitimacy to throw the country into another bloody war, which given conditions in Gaza would be both costly and inconclusive.
Throughout its history, Europe saw countless bloody conflicts; peoples and states clashed, with the Czech lands often the bloody crossroads of these battles.
The balance of opinion among international scholars is that a small group around PKI leader Aidit was involved, but not in a way that even remotely implicated the entire party, or that could even begin to justify the bloody nationwide purge which followed.
The war in Iraq has been exceptionally bloody.
In that sense, bin Laden hoped that the US would be lured into a bloody war in Afghanistan, similar to the Soviet intervention two decades earlier, which had created such a fertile recruiting ground for jihadists.
Hamas’s Zero-Sum GameImagine your next-door neighbor – with whom you have had a long and bloody feud – pulling out a gun and shooting into your windows, from his own living room, which is densely packed with women and children.
Does it trump the real, if less bloody, agony and fear of hundreds of thousands Israelis over long years?
Local and regional actors that placed their faith in America’s commitments will pay a bloody price.
In short, the growing, bloody challenges of the twenty-first century are to be confronted by a toothless UN, a morally weakened US, and a Europe well on the path toward disarmament.
Geographical proximity, an intense and bloody history of conflict with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, religious and emotional connections to Shi'a Iraq, and concerns about the United States and its policies in the region are all threads that tie Iran to its western neighbor.
Three years ago, in the bloody endgame of the Sri Lankan government’s war against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, some 300,000 civilians became trapped between the advancing army and the last LTTE fighters in what has been called “the cage” – a tiny strip of land, not much larger than New York City’s Central Park, between sea and lagoon in the northeast of the country.
The solemn Communist Manifesto announced the specter of the Great Utopia haunting Europe, but failed to warn us of the bloody tyranny.
To come back from near destitution and bloody tyranny in one generation is a great feat, and China should be saluted for it.
In three years of increasingly bloody conflict, the only diplomatic success was achieved when Assad believed that he faced US missile strikes.
Its bloody ten-year civil war, however, was seldom in the international limelight.
This frustration, and Fahim's efforts to suppress it, lies at the heart of many of the recent bloody events now blamed on Taliban die-hards, uncooperative local warlords, and Al Qaeda.
Either way, unless decisive measures are taken within weeks or at most months, Afghanistan will be on its way to yet another round of bloody conflict.
Syria’s bloody conflict is often described as an Iranian war, an effort to keep Syria’s Sunni majority in check and build power and prestige throughout the Levant.
Rather, it is likely to open a new chapter in the region’s bloody and chaotic history – one no less dangerous than the previous chapters since the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I.
Fueled by religious rhetoric and a bloody history, the conflict engenders a degree of passion and irrationality that is difficult to moderate.
India’s independence marked the dawn of the era of decolonization, but many nations threw off the yoke of empire only after bloody and violent struggles.
Two decades ago, the West rejected “spheres of influence,” because Europe’s bloody history taught us that compelling nations to align themselves with others against their will was wrong and a recipe for future conflict.
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