>>"Robbing Peter to pay Paul" or what!?
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>The Serbian version of the same proverb isn't so biblical: "cut the ears to patch the butt".

Ha Ha! Well... they Do have a lot of practice at it, eh :-)

Do you know the expression: "to cut off your nose to spite your face"?

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>>>I haven't researched how the UK newspapers are framing this, but the LA Times had a big article about the Blair's announcement about Iraq.
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>>>According to interviews with UK military leaders the primary reason for leaving Iraq is not about prgress in Iraq, but it's about failure in Afghanistan. The Taliban is making a big resergence there. And the leaders feel that splitting between Iraq and Afghanistan means certain failure in both places. So they are pulling from Iraq to prop up the effort in Afghanistan.