I want to use a very neutral verb that simply means "to put aside" or "to set aside". I don't want to make these verbs mean what they mean when you say "They put aside their differences" or "They set aside their differences"; in the two sentences that I just gave, the verb means that the things being "put aside or "set aside" is a difference of opinion between two people or whatever...I don't want that meaning. See the bold.
Nobody could ever look back on all of the warnings and say that US officials didn’t know what they were doing. And the actions were—putting aside the warnings—patently highly provocative anyway.
