Word: diverts
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...Burmese citizenship and therefore don't appear in official records. They are often the target of state-orchestrated violence incited (the theory goes) to distract everyone else from their own meager lot. An older Burmese friend reminded me how Ne Win had provoked anti-Chinese riots in 1967 to divert attention from the rising price of rice...
...Taliban, would have allowed the U.S. to use their territory for basing operations. And there were other difficulties. As it was, when Clinton sent cruise missiles into Afghanistan in 1998, he was accused by members of Congress and the media of a wag-the-dog strategy--of attempting to divert attention from the scandal over his affair with Monica Lewinsky. After the Cole bombing, Clarke advocated striking al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan but could not win support from the FBI and the CIA, which were not yet convinced that al-Qaeda was responsible. Meanwhile, Clinton was engaged in a last...
...Well, I wasn't directly involved in that decision. He was moved out of the counterterrorism business over to the cybersecurity side of things ..." (For the record: Clarke not only ran counterterrorism through 9/11 but remained on the job for another year as he watched in disgust the Administration divert its attention from al-Qaeda to Saddam Hussein...
...Well, I wasn't directly involved in that decision. He was moved out of the counterterrorism business over to the cybersecurity side of things ..." (For the record: Clarke not only ran counterterrorism through 9/11 but remained on the job for another year as he watched in disgust the Administration divert its attention from al-Qaeda to Saddam Hussein...
...healthcare. Medicare spends 2 to 3 percent of its budget on administration, compared to nearly 10 percent in the private sector. Far from being a massive government bureaucracy, Medicare is a relatively efficient program that avoids many of the costs—like marketing and profits—that divert money paid into private health insurance companies from going towards quality care. Medicare has also led the way in developing techniques to control increasing healthcare costs. Before most private insurers had any idea what to do about rising healthcare costs, Medicare instituted the Prospective Payment System, which lowered costs...