Once again, Mr. Erdogan, with his words, has pushed Turkey's culture wars to the fore, underscoring deep divisions between the secular and the religious, and prompting the sort of controversy many even within his own party had hoped to avoid in the aftermath of the protests and just before Turkey enters an election cycle.
"There are 11 million children in need of humanitarian aid in this war-torn country," Fore said.
I made a solemn vow not to tread anywhere near the Hilary Rosen/Ann Romney brouhaha that erupted recently, thrusting the infamous Mommy Wars to the fore yet again.
While wars routinely shape history, dispose of old powers and bring new ones to the fore, in Babylon war seemed not to have shaped history so much as to have erased it altogether.
Estimates range from $300 for an inch-tall Victorian prayer book with a view of a Gothic church along its rim to $20,000 for a 1640s volume on the history of French Huguenot wars painted with fore-edge flowers, a butterfly and a snail.
And Tony Blair's government, which was at the fore of this war, gave Pakistan's number one terrorist citizenship.
As he did in "The Civil War," Burns brings to the fore an uncannily gifted storyteller and synthesizer, someone who combines emotion and intelligence in seemingly perfect proportions.
The repeated encounter of Western culture with Marxist thought after World War II brought to the fore the political, ethical, and religious implications of Hegelianism; and a marshalling into opposing camps analogous to that of the earlier crisis of the school took shape.
When the strains put on the parliamentary system by the war brought Mussolini to the fore, Victor Emmanuel failed to prevent the Fascist seizure of power, though it apparently lay in his hands to do so merely by signing the decree of martial law proposed by the cabinet.
Shrum points out that the big downside is that it brought the Iraq war vote back to the fore.
