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Comment by Christopher on November 20, 2013 at 8:01pm

That is exactly right Ra. Very good point and the way Dr. Pieczenik explains (showcases) it, is probably the best.

Although the Times did a good job too:

BARVIKHA, Russia — A few years back, before he settled in this bucolic town in a pine forest near Moscow, Askar Akayev, then the president of Kyrgyzstan, had a very stressful day.

In Russia, Exile in Comfort for Leaders Like Assad

Outside his presidential palace, an angry mob had gathered. An overturned car was on fire. Protesters had shinned over a wrought-iron fence and were breaking ground-floor windows and prying open doors.

Then came word from a security adviser: The time had come.

“I left in the suit I was standing up in,” Mr. Akayev told a journalist soon after his downfall in March 2005. Within days he was here, staying in a government-owned sanitarium — and in good company.

Link to original story: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/29/world/europe/in-barvikha-russia-l...

"They wrote in the old days, that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet, nor fitting, in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason".
Ernest Hemingway.

Comment by Christopher on November 20, 2013 at 4:27pm

They're either expendable, or are quickly whisked away, with millions of dollars and an new identity, while a look alike, takes the bullet for them.