Dear CK: Do you mean to say the UK forces who apparently are to support UN in Afghanistan, have a lot to learn?

You do not demonstrate an understanding of "fungible". Desertion is a unilateral decision in no way comparable to the substitution of a hundred Herefords for a hundred Angus of equal weight. Loyalty is not a commodity that can be exchanged back and forth in Afghanistan.

I do not doubt that you had prior knowledge of the word "fungible". That just puts you in the ten percent I said would recognize it. I still say it was a poor choice on that journalist's part.