Word: strife
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...that his books have little to do with the often violent and harrowing situations that he covers: His writing is the story of people and their fight to live their lives, whether it be preserving a centuries-old whaling custom or trying to live amid war and ethnic strife. Massoud fought so that he could live in his homeland as he wished without brutal oppression (the same can be said of the subjects of his essays on Kosovo and Cyprus), just as the Taliban soldiers who faced him across the miles of battlefield are mostly not Islamic fanatics but young...
...events of Sept. 11 were spectacular in their suddenness, their enormity and their surprise. But everyday the world is plagued by more mundane battles, fought not with high technology but with hands and fists and stones. Genocide in Rwanda. Civil strife in the Congo. Ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. These events were just as much an affront to justice as were the events of Sept. 11. And thus, by the rhetoric of an attack on American values anywhere being an attack on security everywhere, they should have warranted a meaningful U.S. response...
...They make an uneasy blend of minority ethnic groups--Tajik, Uzbek, Hazara--in a predominantly Pashtun country, and include Shi'ite Muslims, despised by the majority Sunnis. As soon as they brought down the Soviet puppet ruler, alliance leaders turned on one another and viciously fought in bloody civil strife. The cosmopolitan capital, once known for its beautiful gardens and monuments, was reduced to rubble by factional warfare and complete lawlessness. Territorial warlords who regularly changed sides and betrayed one another are remembered for their ruthlessness and greed rather than any statesmanlike commitment to the nation's good. The Taliban...
...Three Asian nations: Pakistan, Indonesia, the Philippines. Two are Muslim, the other Catholic. All are struggling economically. All have histories of internal strife and all may now have guaranteed that they can expect more of the same...
...waged across a variety of fronts. Militarily, the era was marked by the nuclear weapons buildup and the maintenance of substantial standing armies by the major powers. They never went to armed battle against one another. Still, it was hardly a pacific era: wars in Indochina, civil strife in Indonesia, the missile crisis in Cuba, deadly conflicts in places like Grenada, Mozambique and Nicaragua?all were cold war battles...