Their issues were forgettable, at least to them, tomorrow's amnesia — blame and counter-blame, outrage shouted upon outrage, insult upon insult — but Allistair couldn't forget them.
In a fierce tangle of blame and counter-blame, it should seem extraordinary that eight years have passed before any mists have cleared enough for truth to emerge.
Their issues were forgettable, at least to them, tomorrow's amnesia blame and counter-blame, outrage shouted upon outrage, insult upon insult but Allistair couldn't forget them.
Breaking the cycle of blame and counter-blame between Rwanda and the Congolese government would mean separating fewer than 10,000 Rwandans who, he said, are mixed with troops from Congo and its allies.
But without a sensible approach from the Indian side, Pakistan is bound to bristle and react defensively, sparking a new round of blame and counter-blame.
Former president Luis Inácio Lula da Silva has also gone on the counter-attack, blaming Brazil's economic woes on international bankers.
Uber countered by blaming the slowdown on lower speed limits, more bike lanes, and more pedestrian plazas.
It resulted in the isolation of Washington with almost no influence to shape events on the ground, as both sides of the revolution and counter-revolution blamed America for supporting the other.
One studio's executive even argued that Universal was now adopting a kind of counter-campaign, blaming other studios in an attempt to discredit their Oscar nominees and transform "A Beautiful Mind" into a sympathy candidate.
The many failures in Mars exploration probes resulted in a satirical counter-culture blaming the failures on an Earth-Mars Bermudaa Triangle", a "Mars Curse", or a "Great Galactic Ghoul" that feeds on Martian spacecraft.
Even Honduras's current president blames counter narcotics policies for the surge in migrants.
