We're inside a damn tinderbox.

Place was a tinderbox just waitin' to go.

There is no time. The place is a tinderbox.

But first, we're gonna go to where they're paying a big price for tinderbox conditions.

The relationship between the majority Buddhist Rakhine andthe Muslim Rohingya has long been a tinderbox.

Before yesterday's violence, there had been indications that Kosovo remains the ethnic tinderbox that it has always been.

No one can create a stable political order for them; withthe Americans gone, meddlesome Arab neighbors and anxious Iranianscan only lose by dooming Iraq to remain a tinderbox.

But the biggest risks posed by unilateral recognition of Kosovo’s independence are in the South Caucasus, a region thatabuts the tinderbox of today’s Middle East.

The tinderbox of unrest in Africa needs to be monitored and kept in check, lest it threaten to ignite as a result of polarizing issues and economic adversity and deprivation.

The Middle East is a tinderbox, with some key players onall sides waiting for every opportunity to destroy their enemieswith bullets, bombs and missiles. One of the specialvulnerabilities of Israel, and a repetitive cause of violence, isthe holding of prisoners.