But now they were split in twain and the town was privileged to witness cousins of the fifth and sixth degree taking sides in the most shattering scandal Atlanta had ever seen.
It is not about taking sides in the Syrian conflict, it is not about invading, it is not about regime change, or even working more closely with the opposition.
While the U.S. says it doesn’t take sides in territorial disputes, it has sent ships and planes near contested islands, calling them freedom of navigation operations.
The fact that Brazil generally tried to avoid taking sides in international disputes—and had abstained in the Security Council vote on the Libya intervention—only made matters worse.