Or as Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, put it during Senate testimony on Tuesday, "Those who would like to foment a Sunni-Shia standoff — and you know who they are — are all weighing in in Syria".
Throw in some territorial disputes ("Ape live here, human live there," Caesar tells Oldman and Clarke in a tense standoff) and you have the makings of an allegory of the most sensitive order.
A former high-ranking Israeli official shared the seismograph survey of the standoff by explaining: "You don't quite understand how fragile the situation is".
It's hard for us to see that much of anything has been gained from the 16-day standoff -- unless you think that the emergence of an opportunity to agree with John McCain (not to mention the chance to resurrect the phrase "saner Republicans") is enough cause for celebration.
"People think that if you are in a standoff with Obama and you hold your ground, he will eventually back down," Mr. Hamid said.
No matter how much you destroy or how intimidating you appear, the police state and the military-industrial complex will always have more armor, more guns, more tear gas and pepper spray than you can take, and in any standoff, they will beat you 100percentt of the time.
The screening is strong; there's Vanished, a one-hour about a kidnapping that will play out over 22 weeks, Ted Danson's new half-hour, Help Me Help You, and Standoff, about hostage negotiators who are having an affair which is against government policy.
It's the final battle in an RPG, or a desperate standoff in Resident Evil 5 and you're low on ammo.
After the opening three against one, you've got the clever standoff fight of the heavyweight-boxer type against Batman; the 40-against-one standoff in the alleyway; the marksmen fight with its constant zoom-ins; and the raid on Joker's palace.
