All are reports from a two-front conflict: Thurber versus Thurber, and Thurber versus the world.
A multi-front conflict – among rightwing paramilitaries like the AUC, the leftwing insurgency known as the Farc, government forces, and drug cartels – killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, and displaced millions more.
However, the possibility of a two-front conflict (with Britain and Paraguay) faded when, in September 1865, the British government sent an envoy who publicly apologized for the crisis between the empires.
The world's media lapped it up, not least because a vast chunk of European and American opinion did not wish to open a third front of conflict, this time against the Russkies.
A further feature of tagging culture found in Azaz but far more prominent in the more "front-line" conflict zone of Aleppo city itself are the presence of brigade-specific tags that reflect the "ownership" or at least presence of particular opposition brigades in different areas of the city.
On the eastern front, amid conflicting claims by the rebels and loyalist forces, the battle lines were hard to locate.
Before detailing this three-front global conflict, let me explain how we've been at this point already twice in the recent past.
As the president contemplates new appointments in the foreign policy arena, he will have to consider that just as the U.S. necessarily begins to pay more attention to the Asian front, the conflicts and problems of the Middle East will stubbornly remain.
That enthusiasm for the game hasn't waned, and it has gone a long way toward earning Friedman credibility among the sport's traditionalists, which, in turn, has helped him avoid the kinds of front-office conflicts that brought the downfalls of other data-driven executives.
Over the last decade, the Web has become the latest front in the conflict.
The growing number of terrorist attacks such as the recent one in Chabahar constitutes a second front of the conflict.
