Eritrea also fights a proxy war against Ethiopia in Somalia and in Ethiopia's rebellious Ogaden region.
Uganda and Sudan agreed earlier this month to end a festering proxy war on their frontier.
Miss Starlin is also caught up in the proxy war that Eritrea and Ethiopia are fighting in Somalia.
But a proxy war between Rwanda and the Kinshasa government continued in the east until the end of 2008.
It's a proxy war for settling old scores, dredging up past slights, supporting preferred teams and conferences and opposing despised ones.
Some Central Asian states, such as Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, have joined Afghanistan's proxy war by backing the Uzbek and Tajik factions.
The Bush administration has reason to hope though that as a protest movement speeded American withdrawal from Vietnam, pressure from Iranians may have a similar effect on Iran's proxy war in Iraq.
Judging by the large sums of outside money that have poured in from political action committees, unions and big corporate donors, it is widely seen as a proxy war over the future of the unions.
Microsoft certainly knows a thing or two about anti-trust suits, and if the kids at Google are to be believed the company is waging something of a proxy war on them by injecting itself in lawsuits and complaints brought up by third parties.
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But that's simply not reality, and it's not fair to Palm's customers to have to sit through a proxy war with devices that may or may not work tomorrow because Palm refuses to do what so many other companies have managed to do and simply integrate with iTunes properly.
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And that's what Ambassador Rice was talking about, and Secretary Clinton and I, because the consequences of not taking that firm action are more violence -- violence that spills over Syria's borders, violence that results in even greater participation in this by Iran, for example, and others, to the point where it becomes a proxy war of sorts.
But the statement is a sign of growing concern in the US that the conflict in Syria is morphing into a complex regional war by proxy.
Many Arab papers see the superpower confrontation over Syria as the start of a new Cold War by proxy, although one commentator says the Russian and Chinese positions could change.
Left and right rarely meet in combat, preferring to fight their war by proxy: only 5% of their victims, it is reckoned, actually die with a gun in their hands.
They had been at war directly or by proxy for more than a decade, and were under increasing pressure from the international mediators and donors to stop.
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Such a state of affairs in the latter half of the twentieth century led to the endless series of proxy wars that defined the Cold War era.
The danger is that each time they clash, even by proxy, they risk turning strategy into war.
During the cold war, African governments, acting as proxy for one side or the other, often backed rebel movements but they rarely crossed borders and never because of an internal issue.
While each of these states continues to supply assistance to its respective proxy in Cambodia, all three now appear to recognize that the war is imposing unacceptably high costs both on their reeling economies and on their international standing.
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