Iran's arms shipments and support for terror fuel the fire of conflict in the Middle East, and it must stop.
And those politicians who seem to know what they're doing as they spew vitriol, consciously inciting and provoking others by making an opponent a target, are simply pyromaniacs enthralled by the fire of conflict and power.
During his visit, Trump repeatedly singled out Iran, calling the country a source of instability that "fueled the fires of sectarian conflict and terror".
At best, war is a difficult enterprise, but by his decision to fan the fires of a conflict that is languishing, and extinguishing itself, this president will share the distinction, with Sisyphus, of endlessly trying to defy gravity.
"For decades, Iran has fueled the fires of sectarian conflict and terror," Trump said, adding that it "funds arms, trains militias that spread destruction and chaos" — he also pointed to Iran's support for Syria's Bashar Assad as he committed "unspeakable crimes".
The fire of one conflict feeds the fire of the other.
But it will cost Israeli lives, too, and will add fuel to the fire of the conflict between the two sides.
There are variants of Ascriptivist theory that go some distance toward allaying the worry that acceptance of the theory would add fuel to the fires of ethno-national conflict by qualifying the unilateral right of secession for nations (or distinct peoples) in various ways.
Often their priorities, values, and work habits are very different and leaders get caught in the cross-fire of those conflicts.
