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The best reason to tell a story such as this would be to demonstrate that in the right circumstances, we could be infected by the same delusions and hunt for the same kinds of scapegoats.
This parallel obsession elicited the interesting suggestion, from the critic Maurice Tuchman, that both animals (especially sacrificed animals) and uniformed domestics were scapegoats of sorts.
Teachers have been made scapegoats for many social ills; it would be a service to acknowledge their occasional courage and virtue in opposing the flatheads of the world, rather than lumping them in with the fools.
Instead of finding scapegoats, they now encourage doctors and nurses to admit mistakes (no punishment attached) in order to prevent future ones.
The pan-Arab paper al-Quds al-Arabi published an article by its Palestinian editor, Abdelbari Atwan, saying that "once again Clinton is using the Iraqi people as scapegoats to extricate himself from his domestic crisis.