If that were not enough to recast the equation, the stirrings of Washington's putative new alignment with Iran inject further imponderables, especially because Tehran is Mr. Assad's closest regional ally and sponsor of the Hezbollah Shiite Muslim militia in Lebanon in a nexus of increasingly toxic rivalries between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.
If that's you, then take heart, because under both the ancient sun of Ecclesiastes and ours can be found the unchanging human technologies of deceit, corruption, small-mindedness, toxic sibling rivalry, dysfunctional families, infidelity, betrayal, and stupidity.
You don't root for either of them, and their sibling rivalry, or toxic loyalty, is always more interesting when they are on the same side and the violence is just implied.
This love-rat brother has angered and broken the hearts of some of people there, and – an exquisite refinement of family agony – he too has loaned money to their profligate and incompetent dad, more money than Colin it seems, so there are toxic and masochistic elements of rivalry.
As his firm's founding partner, Dysart's character was a voice of calm and probity amid office rivalries, sizzling affairs, toxic clients, and brutal courtroom battles.
An intelligence community hobbled, as the Post shows, by a toxic mixture of secrecy, compartmentalization, turf rivalry, and tremendous duplication of effort is further bedevilled by a problem familiar to every computer addict: too much information.
