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Parliamentary democracy was impeded by the ideological commitment of various political factions and compromise was rare.
Such was the subsequent dismay among reactionary factions at this sign of weakness that the Tokugawa shogunate was soon overthrown.
None of the stories mention the prime recent example of Zinni's concern: the factions in Afghanistan at war with each other and associated with worldwide terrorism were incubated by a concerted U.S. mission in the 1980s to arm indigenous forces against the Soviet occupiers.
I also know there are some expense-account accusations against Gore's campaign manager, Tony Coelho, but don't know who the anti-Coelho factions are that are spreading them (or why they couldn't dig up something bigger).
In Rome, the dissolute popes repeatedly switched factions for temporary advantage and lost all political and moral authority in the process.