Airstrip One

Two Birds, One Stone

Like chimps typing Hamlet, Samizdata comes up with a good idea. We have countless numbers of assylum seekers claiming to be from Iraq (and who knows some of them may be) and we have promised the Americans that we will help them invade Iraq. Why don't we simply round up the military age men, put them in uniform and send them off to liberate their homeland.

Bingo, fewer refugees and Blair can satiate his vanity without sending British troops to die.

As our courts insist that refugees from all sorts of unlikely places are fleeing persecution, then there's simply no excuse for not putting them into uniform and helping them to liberate their claimed homeland.