Word: tribalization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Correspondents and editors belonging to Pakistan's top local print and TV outlets let loose with accusations and complaints, particularly about American concerns that Pakistan was failing as a state. "There is no Taliban threat," said one Pakistani journalist. "Do you really think a bunch of hillbillies from the tribal areas can take on our military?" sneered another. "It's all propaganda," said a third, designed "to weaken us, so the U.S. can fulfill its agenda to break Pakistan into pieces...
...That resentment is fueled by a belief that Pakistan is suffering for Washington's failures. Zardari may say that the war on terrorism is as much Pakistan's as it is the U.S.'s, but that message has yet to take root. The growing militancy in Pakistan's tribal areas "is the price we are paying now for supporting the American war on terror," says Ahsan Iqbal, information secretary for the opposition party Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz). "If we stopped supporting the American war [in Afghanistan], we would have peace tomorrow." Iqbal dismisses recent accounts in the Western press...
What about "Bring me My Machine Gun?" Zuma's theme song? It's a little insensitive to have a tribal war song as your campaign anthem. But, ach, man, the Marseillaise? Read those lyrics. Bar a little residual union militancy, the French turned...
...President Bush’s use of CIA covert operations and even increased them in some areas. The new director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta, confirmed this in an interview, saying that the agency’s campaign against militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas was the “most effective weapon” the Obama administration had to combat al Qaeda’s top leadership...
...American Jury” classes, Nesson sat in the audience watching as a group of his students showed a clip from the popular reality show “Survivor” and then conducted a mock trial based on the show’s “tribal council” rules while candy-incentives circulated for those participating. The marijuana laws seemed to be something of a running joke with the students—two mentioned them over the course of the unrelated simulation, perhaps playing to Nesson, who looked up from his computer screen each time and raised...