The idea that Washington is trying to violently undermine a government it has spent billions propping up, while carelessly taking the lives of its own citizens, provoked even the normally temperate US envoy to Kabul into a strong response.
Accordingly, Israeli critics of the peace process have often said they have been waiting for the time when the Palestinians will have their own Altalena moment, one in which the forces bent on violently undermining a single Palestinian national aspiration are finally reigned in.
Despite its popular success, Kurt and Courtney seemed unnecessarily sour, as Broomfield took so violently against Love that it undermined the integrity of the film.
And today, we have no idea how to execute this two-step without having peace undermined by the Turks, who remain violently opposed to giving territory the Kurds.
The defiant uprising by Hungarians in 1956, though violently repressed, became a pivotal event that stirred the hearts and minds of people across Eastern and Central Europe and undermined Communist regimes across the region.
If Karzai and Abdullah remain virulently or violently at odds, it is easy to imagine a Kabul government divided from within by its warlords and undermined from without by the Taliban on one side and disaffected northern groups on the other.
That undermined her faith.
"We're being fatally undermined.
"Glasnost" has undermined Soviet discipline.
