bloodletting

In under a year, HTS has presided over no fewer than three incidents of large-scale sectarian bloodletting, in which Sunni forces associated with its regime have carried out killings of Alawites and Druze.

He is globally revered for putting a stop to the frenzy of bloodletting 31 years ago, in which extremist members of the Hutu ethnic group murdered some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

The Epstein scandal may prove to be the tie that binds — or, to extend the metaphor, the first political bloodletting that has universal appeal since Nixon was expelled from the body politic.

The horrendous bloodletting of World War I bloodletting removed all inhibitions against a total, violent resolution of social conflict.

But the guns kept coming — and the bloodletting and mayhem grew.