Internecine government feuding persisted even under existential threat from ISIS.

Evidence

Even as the Sunni extremists approached the outskirts of Baghdad, the feuding within the Iraqi government continued unabated. Another major complicating factor is that many of the regional wars are proxy battles fueled by the rivalry between the Shiites of Iran and the Sunnis of Saudi Arabia. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2500

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2500
• XREF: connects to: Terror intensified as internal political opposition disappeared — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 901; Islamophobic state responses are dramatized as internal security-bureaucracy conflict — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 327; Total terror emerges only after opposition is already defeated (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Terror intensified as internal political opposition disappeared — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 901; Islamophobic state responses are dramatized as internal security-bureaucracy conflict — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 327; Total terror emerges only after opposition is already defeated (+1 more)