"There was a sense," Mr. Biden said of his meeting with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, "that it would be able to be handled without any conflagration going beyond Syria, and that it could be localized to Syria, and that transition could take place".
Ah, you warrior dying here amidst the conflagration engulfing the 'Palace without Rival'.
This confined space — realized in rich detail but no kitschy atmospheric excesses by the set designer Collette Pollard — cannot house both the damaged, delicate Blanche and the insensitive, egoistic Stanley without a decisive conflagration.
A century ago in Europe, years of peace and globalisation tempted leaders into thinking that they could afford to play with nationalist fires without the risk of conflagration.
But supporting sectarian factions without fuelling an even larger conflagration would require a deftness that the American military has seldom displayed thus far.
The Democrats are united in their opposition to the war, but none have spelled out a persuasive plan for getting American troops home without setting off a wider conflagration.
"This level of conflagration and casualties has the prospect for escalation without a doubt," said Yossi Alpher, former director of the Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies.
(Trump can even, without too many obstacles, initiate a nuclear conflagration).
If the risks of triggering a wider conflagration force America to pull back from the brink without successfully ejecting the rebels from Najaf, the Shia militiamen and all the other insurgent groups across Iraq would claim a resounding victory.If there were any such retreat, there may be an attempt to disguise it by replacing American troops with Iraqi soldiers and police.
A match was ignited, a conflagration begun, and Morris died four days later of his burns without naming the men, perhaps fearing retribution against his family.
