bloodletting

Now this bloodletting is accelerating, and soon it will be time to go for the throat.

But over the years, occasional and fitful progress was halted by bouts of bloodletting that reached a brutal apogee a generation later, when Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis on Oct.

The latter refers to the sectarian bloodletting that followed Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein’s removal.

Most of the dead remain anonymous, presumed foot soldiers of one side or the other in the bloodletting.

Haunted by the immense sacrifices and dreadful memories of World War I, the French and British people were reluctant ever to endure such a bloodletting again.