In addition to militarizing the Cold War, the Korean conflict widened its field.
But it has turned into a much bigger conflict, widening existing splits in the political parties, in the religious-Zionist movement and between religious and secular Israelis.Mr Sharon's adoption of the withdrawal plan emasculated the Labour Party, which was forced to support its arch-enemy.
Over the next five and a half years, the conflict widened into a vicious legal battle over privacy and defamation, ending in a Denver federal court, where a jury recently returned the first verdict ever against the league, a unit of the B'nai Brith that has fought anti-Semitism, racism and bigotry for 87 years.
These conflicts widened the gap between the views of the policymakers and those of the general public on education reform policies.
These issues are certain to come up on Secretary of State John Kerry's two-day visit to Moscow this week, one that Mr. Burns said would be used to argue that Russia's long allegiance to Mr. Assad is now turning against its government's interests, with a prolonged conflict only worsening the chances that the Syrian conflict will widen and promote extremism, including in the Caucasus region.
"International unity will collapse and the path to conflict will widen".
International unity will collapse, and the path to conflict will widen".
The conflict could widen out further still, with former Soviet republics supporting Russia and the US and Europe backing Georgia.
Human rights groups said the conflict has widened beyond the two groups because each has called in heavily armed allies from various corners of Darfur.
While Israeli officials described the attack as a measured response, it raised the possibility that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could widen to neighboring Arab states.
Then, at the end of a week of violence, something happened that laid bare this conflict's widening circle of hate, violence and revenge.
