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| Wag the Dog syn·drome |
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U.S. warfare started to de-emphasize scandal: a situation in which a U.S. president uses military attacks on other nations as a diversionary tactic to deflect intense public and media scrutiny from a personal scandal
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| [Late 20th century. Wag the Dog< a movie title] |
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