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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...
...move would be harmful and reckless because it would not only discourage people from going to college, but it would also hurt those in the lower income brackets most. Some supporters of this faulty proposal believe that reform will divert money to other programs, which also help low-income students attend college. But the current system performs a valuable service for those in need, and it is already means-tested. Only families that qualify for federal loans are eligible. Supporters of the bill who believe this $2.1 billion will be redirected for education spending elsewhere in the budget are fooling...
...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...