Conceived to address different problems, they have also traditionally drawn resources from different funding streams, been coordinated separately and have had vastly different implementation timeframes.
Japan is concerned that China may draw resources from the Japanese side of the disputed boundary and has criticized China for recently sending warships into the area.
The wars are very present in our soldiers' lives, though — in all of our lives, drawing resources from other priorities, leaving moral scars.
She added: "We need the Chilcot report out to know exactly what happened but we were wrong there were no weapons of mass destruction and also the strategy was wrong because it drew resources from Afghanistan at a crucial stage".
But the inspections have drawn resources from other activities, like using radiation to sterilize tsetse flies, which have devastated African livestock, or encouraging the use of radiation therapy on cancer patients in poor countries.
The country has been racked for 36 years by a conflict that pits two rebel armies against the government and the outlawed paramilitaries, which draw resources from large landowners and drug-trafficking.
Several rural states, including Montana, have said they will not apply, at least for now, partly because of the emphasis on charter schools, which would draw resources from small country schools.
The survey said that a third of schools reported that the federal No Child Left Behind law, which since 2001 has required public schools to test students in math and English, had drawn resources from foreign languages.
Not only were the Bush administration's arguments about Iraq shrouded in misrepresentation, but the deceit also drew resources from real security imperatives: the global war on terror, our homeland security budget and the battle to stabilize one country that did have a direct link to Sept. 11, Afghanistan.
Drawing resources from every settled continent, cities such as Manchester, Birmingham, and Liverpool converted raw materials into manufactured goods for a global market, while London, the country's capital, emerged as one of the world's preeminent cities and the hub of a political, economic, and cultural network that extended far beyond England's shores.
