Word: puppeteered
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...paid for the book, you sat through the mini-series, now applaud the costumes, scenery and special effects. Oh, yes, there's also a musical going on, but despite the efforts of an able (and authentically Asian) Broadway cast, the show remains as passive and emotionless as the unseen puppet Emperor...
Ishaq Khan and the caretaker government of Prime Minister Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi portrayed Ms. Bhutto as an enemy of Islam, a traitor who sold state secrets to neighboring India and an American puppet...
...hawks may dream of annexing the West Bank, but that has never been official policy. To the contrary, Jerusalem has often promised to permit some form of self-rule for the Palestinians, though it has dragged its heels unconscionably on doing so. Iraq initially proposed to set up a puppet state in Kuwait, but swiftly abandoned even that pretense. Baghdad now proclaims the emirate to be a province of Iraq and is trying, by such means as destruction of records, to obliterate any trace that there ever was a nation named Kuwait...
...have been accused by Arab critics of being an American puppet. Now that you have deployed troops to Saudi Arabia and you are assisting in the American military buildup, how do you respond to that...
...never respond to it. We are not puppets. We have our own interests, and we are not controlled by any country. We have good relations with America, with the Soviet Union, with Europe, with the Eastern bloc, with the African continent, even with the Arab world. Egypt is Egypt. Egypt will never be a puppet for anybody, and those who are saying this know it perfectly well...