Programs like "Hardball" and "The McLaughlin Group" have already reshaped political discourse into a kind of staged confrontation, creating very unlikely celebrities -- Lanny Davis, your limo is here -- from the stilted combat.
The president's unusual long-distance confrontation had created uncertainty in Jakarta and in foreign financial markets.
The timing of the confrontation has created a diplomatic quandary for President Obama, putting him in the position of opposing Palestinian aspirations for self-determination even as his administration has championed Arabs who have overthrown leaders in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya or who seek to in Syria.
For the final confrontation he creates a memorably hellish environment (a sort of infernal Monument Valley, crossed by a spur of the New York City subway system).
Khartoum "continues a pattern of sustained, intense and destructive economic warfare against the south … The purpose is not only to destabilise the south but to provoke actual military confrontation and create a casus belli for a new war," he said.
While there is a certain intensity in watching Mavis barrel towards her inevitable confrontation, it creates a sense of dread more than gleeful anticipation.
Police claimed the group "also organised others to interfere with sensitive cases, deliberately aggravating disputes and instigating public-government confrontations to create mass incidents".
State-owned news agency Xinhua claimed the group "organized others to interfere with sensitive cases, deliberately aggravating disputes, and instigating public-government confrontations to create mass incidents," using the Chinese euphemism for protests.
The kidnapping is the latest in a series of confrontations that have created tension and spurred armed clashes in Lebanon, which, despite mirroring the sectarian makeup of Syria, has largely managed to avoid the 15-month uprising spreading in that country.
Avoiding a confrontation, the whaling commission created a committee to try to build a consensus over the next year.
