Oak,

You'd have to have been around back then to remember the story. F1 is right. When Lewinsky story was on the front page everyday, Bill Clinton ordered the bombing of a building in Sudan to shift the media attention off of the scandal.

Fake pretense, of course. Truth comes out later that it was an "aspirin factory" but by then very few people care.

I remember W. Bush engaging in some brief war in an effort to shake the "wimp" tag.

In both cases the people being killed were Black/Brown so nobody cared.