So what do you think Stephen Maire …Australia dumbly playing pig in the minefield… essentially as the tool of other nations interests, and without much thought to their own…? The phrase ‘pig in the minefield ‘ is about a military tactic of sending in mobs of milling pigs (or, sometimes sheep or cattle) into the no mans land one plans to attack in the hope that their weight will trip off any mines laid in the ground so that dauntless humans, sometimes in tanks, can follow without being blown up… In political argot, a pig in the minefield is someone thrust forward to take the attention, and possibly the flak, with an apparently pure cause whilst others, with less noble motives, can push their real agendas behind the scenes
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 07:04:09 +0000
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