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As adult children of alcoholics, sons of deadbeat dads, witnesses to battered-spouse syndrome, and victims of every sort of paddling and walloping and thwacking, Republicans are no longer ceding ground to Bill Clinton when it comes to feeling the pain of a dysfunctional nation.
The cover story explains why Jerusalem could be the tripwire for World War III and profiles the delusional extremists who could ignite it: Jewish fanatics who want to retake the Temple Mount by force, Christian apocalypse-awaiters who want to see the temple rebuilt, and seething sheiks who will wage war before ceding authority over the Dome of the Rock.
Instead, in a number of cases their rulers sought to buy off local Islamist movements by ceding control of many social and educational issues.
This is a disturbing ceding of the field to professionals.
The Communists considered ceding Kosovo to Albania but instead decided that it should revert to its antebellum status quo.