Phantom states stoke wars, foster crime, and make weak states even weaker.
His plea for assistance is urgent because Al Qaeda in Iraq, a Sunni group and Al Qaeda affiliate that was significantly degraded in 2008, is again a major threat, stoking war against Iraq's majority Shiites.
The White Ribbon is an essay on the violence and social dysfunction just beneath the surface of the ostensibly placid rural communities of Europe, and how their simmering, unacknowledged resentments stoked war fever.
These hardcore ideologues began to target Shias in mass-casualty bomb attacks with the explicit desire to stoke civil war.
It is a hardcore ideological group exploiting the political disaffection of one community to stoke sectarian war.
Ban it and move away from the free speech many thought Reddit stood for, and it could see an exodus of hardcore users and the unpaid moderators that run the site, plus stoke a war with the trolls.
But if it banned it all and moved away from the free speech many thought Reddit stood for, it could see an exodus of hardcore users and the unpaid moderators the run the site, plus stoke a war with the trolls.
Rather than trying to stoke a war between Shiites and the Americans, Iran has simply convinced its Iraqi Shiite friends, whom Iran trained and put in its payroll in the 1980s, to ensure that the Bush administration's proposal for long-term access to Iraqi military bases is rejected.
Taylor is accused of stoking civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone partly to exploit its mineral resources and diamond fields.
Difficult as it is for them to adjust to public demands for accountability and efficiency, they are far less equipped to manage the inevitable blowback from stoking sectarian war within their own countries or a greater confrontation with Iran.
