Some critics of the Bush administration have alleged that the increased military presence in the gulf risks igniting a conflict.
This is the point at which the generational conflict ignites, a conflict that many assume no longer exists just because parents and children wear the same trainers these days.
MUMBAI — It could almost be the plot of a Bollywood melodrama: A businessman, feeling frustrated and shortchanged after spending years as his brother's junior partner, lashes out, igniting a conflict that puts their fortunes at risk.
The classic romance, whether comic or tragic, is built on desire igniting a conflict that has to be resolved for a relationship to grow; modern romance is based on the premise of emotional and intellectual compatibility, the effort to kindle the sparks of love from friendship.
But in December 2013, Sudan's President Salva Kiir accused former Vice-President Riek Mattemptingtoempting to stage a coup, igniting a conflict rife with ethnically motivated killings, sexual violence and the use of child soldiers.
The arms buildup in the gulf comes as Israeli officials continue to weigh an airstrike that many experts believe would ignite a larger conflict.
Human rights groups and others have warned that the junta's actions could ignite a wider conflict in the area, where other, better armed, ethnic groups also are resisting government control.
Senior politicians from Germany, Austria, Poland and Estonia raised the possibility of new EU sanctions against Russia to punish it for the Kerch incident, which the west fears could ignite a wider conflict.
A counterattack against North Korea could ignite a broader conflict with a country that has conducted two tests of nuclear devices, at a time when Seoul is preparing to welcome the Group of 20 summit meeting of major economic powers in November.
Since then, a spree of violence at churches has claimed dozens of lives, prompting a state of emergency in the group's northern homebase states and threatening to ignite a sectarian conflict in a country split evenly between Muslims and Christians.
Ignite a regional conflict, infuriate the United States, lock in the Islamic Republic for a generation, and take the modern state of Israel to war against Persia for the first time in order to set back a weakened Iran's nuclear zigzag by a couple of years at best?
