Word: sectarian
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...Gaza strip today, history is trauma. Decades of war, occupation and sectarian strife have turned it into a seething refugee camp, crippled by internecine conflict and poverty. But while Gaza's future seems as uncertain as its present, there is little disagreement about the splendor of its past...
...rate that has increased with the "surge" of 30,000 U.S. troops into Baghdad earlier this year. Those forces have moved out of their relatively secure strongholds in the capital and scattered in smaller units into more dangerous neighborhoods to patrol and live. Since the surge began, sectarian violence among Iraqis has declined slightly in Baghdad, but U.S. casualties have increased, as President George W. Bush predicted. So has the frequency of grievous single days when multiple service members are killed...
Perhaps Americans and Iraqis aren’t so different after all. Americans dislike it when countries like France and Russia interfere with our foreign policy issues. Iraqis also dislike other countries meddling in their affairs. Americans worry that the sectarian violence in Iraq will kill Americans there. Iraqis have the same worry about Iraqis dying in Iraq. Both peoples care about oil. And perhaps most telling, when it comes to governments, both countries embrace partisan politics, and whether it’s America or Iraq, the electorate is always very aware of the religious affiliation of the politicians...
...Iraqis will eventually remove the al-Qaeda cancer from the Sunni insurgency-which would put a serious crimp in President George W. Bush's current rationale for the war, that we're there to fight al-Qaeda. But it's also probable that without a political deal, the sectarian conflict between the Sunnis and Shi'ites will intensify-and eventually explode when the U.S. military pulls back from Iraq. The stakes in Iraq then become questions of moral responsibility and regional stability. "How many Srebrenicas do you have the stomach for?" a senior U.S. official asked me, referring...
...shiny and secular and scientific, focused on technological breakthroughs and making money. We don't expect religious riots and communal clashes and bombings. In India, full of paradoxes and wonderful, frustrating inconsistencies, you have both: hi-tech business parks and age-old religious grudges; software savvy alongside sectarian brutality. Resolving those contradictions may well decide India's future...