Word: factionalism
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...been proxies for bigger, more complicated enemies. During the Great Game, the British fought there to prevent the Russians from invading India. In the 1980s, Americans equipped mujahedin to bleed the Soviet Union dry. In the civil war following the 1989 Soviet withdrawal, Pakistan backed the Taliban, a fundamentalist faction fostered in its own religious seminaries, to counter Indian influence in the rival Northern Alliance. When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1994, Pakistan was one of only three nations to recognize their government. The Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), Pakistan's clandestine services, then sent militants hardened in the Soviet...
...national chairmanship, will be hosting a meeting of state leaders in Myrtle Beach later this month. Republican governors, a group that includes such potential 2012 presidential candidates as Sanford, Utah's Jon Huntsman Jr. and Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, plan to meet in Florida. Social conservatives, a faction that Mike Huckabee is positioning himself to lead, were scheduled to caucus in Virginia. No one is quite sure yet whether Palin will become the darling of one of these armies or simply the new Dan Quayle. Luckily for Republicans, the Democrats will still be around to unite them eventually...
...homes in the recent weeks. (Between 1 and 2 million have been displaced since 2007 in the region.) Despite several attempts at cease-fires, peace agreements and negotiations between his group and the democratically elected government, Nkunda has refused to lay down his arms since he formed his rebel faction in 2004. ((See pictures of the humanitarian disaster in Congo...
...Online, Palestinian youths don't have to navigate the political allegiances - primarily to the warring Fatah and Hamas factions - that crisscross the camps and which have torn the West bank and Gaza apart. These tensions don't dominate "e-Palestine": experts estimate that up to 60% of young Palestinians are not members of any faction - an enormous break from the extremely high rate of party affiliation of previous generations...
...1970s, Bruni fled Italy with her wealthy industrialist Bruni-Tedeschi family to take haven in France in fear they might be selected as targets by leftist terrorists during Italy's "years of lead." Roberto Della Rocca, who survived seven shots fired at him in 1980 by the Genovese faction of the Red Brigades, would not comment on the First Lady's role, saying that it is Sarkozy who must take responsibility for his actions. "We ask a very simple question to the French authorities and the French people: What if the situation was reversed? What if French people had been...