Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 50 quagmire 46 unwinnable war 45 civil strife 45 abyss 45 despair 44 Iraq 44 lone superpower 44 war 43 sectarian rivalries 42 vicious spiral 42 Balkanization 42 antiwar sentiment 42 morass 42 sectarian strife 42 crisis 42 Afghan istan 41 sectarian rifts 41 unpleasant truths 41 quagmires 41 anomie 41 Disillusionment 41 perdition 41 radical jihadists 41 disillusionment 40 Anti Americanism 40 strife 40 turmoil 40 chaos 40 tyrannical regimes 40 adventurism 40 Escalating violence 40 desolate landscape 40 bitter recriminations 40 isolationism 40 dilemmas 40 anti Americanism 40 bloodshed 40 holocausts 39 hyperpower 39 apocalyptic visions 39 crises 39 Islamic radicalism 39 refugee exodus 39 fratricidal 39 pessimism 39 hellholes 39 anxieties 39 Islamic fundamentalism 39 grim realities 39 insurgencies 39 despotic regimes 39 adolescent angst 39 tyrannies 38 self loathing 38 horrors 38 bellicosity 38 radical Islamism 38 paranoia 38 ostracism 38 Hobbesian 38 deceptions 38 vacillation 38 Islamist militancy 38 specters 38 Pax Americana 38 loneliness 38 nuclear holocaust 38 moral quandary 38 anarchy 38 internal rifts 38 radical ideologies 38 WWIII 38 delusion 38 utter despair 38 despotic rule 38 disillusion 38 instability 38 Realpolitik 38 hatreds 38 Afghanistan 38 quandaries 38 messianism 38 deserts 38 tumult 38 desolation 38 unilateralist 37 insecurities 37 cri de coeur 37 Islamo fascists 37 fundamentalism 37 existential 37 authoritarianism 37 brutal dictatorship 37 radical Islam 37 jihadism 37 quicksand 37 despotism 37 wars 37 defeatism 37 codependency 37 despotic regime