Afghans make bad conscripts.Byline: Maureen Messent HOW can we not laugh at the confused who advocate the young Afghans in France be returned home to fight the Taliban? What military leader would want the distraction Distraction Divination (See OMEN.) Porlock a “person from Porlock” interrupted Coleridge while he was recollecting the dream on which he based “Kubla Khan”. [Br. Lit.: Poems of Coleridge in Magill IV, 756] of enforced soldiery when his men are embattled em·bat·tled adj. 1. Prepared or fortified for battle or engaged in battle: embattled troops; an embattled city. 2. ? How would he know these unwilling conscripts wouldn't unwittingly hinder, rather than help in killing their compatriots? Then there's the notion these Afghans should be doing a job our soldiers would prefer to leave well alone. That's not true. Army recruitment has jumped over the last year. Added to the venom directed at these sad Afghans are the wild accusations. Some insist they're coming to Britain for idle lives on welfare. Others declare they're out to steal British jobs. Sorry, but we can't have it both ways. Another case of our having lost the love of our neighbours This article is about an Australian soap opera. For other articles with similar names, see Neighbours (disambiguation). Neighbours is a long-running Australian soap opera, which began its run in March 1985. , I suspect. And please, no reminders that "charity begins at home". That's only half the quotation which ends "but must not stay there". |
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