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The Wall Street Journal has some particularly good detail on why the current action may be more effective than the Desert Storm air war: it will involve a much higher percentage of precision weapons, the cruise missiles now have satellite guidance, there isn't the distraction of also trying to attack an army deployed throughout the region, and the targeting is now being done off seven years of intelligence.
"The vision of worldly power is a distraction," he warns.
The ambiguity resulting from the conjunction of black and gold is akin to the distraction caused by optical illusions: Lehrer's phrase is both literally correct and literally nonsense.
The 1998 spin: The deposition was a minor distraction.
But although the 60 Minutes producer is played by the star (Pacino grandstands, but not to the point of distraction), Bergman's story doesn't have the same primal force.