The northern frontier again

* northern frontier again *

A war distant and unkind
Unable to a nation bind
Bickering safely back home
While young men in deserts roam
No accounting for the taste
Of what the public will waste
How the budget is not deep enough
To purchase vital war stuff
The pawnbrokers hold their goods
Down payment on body armour
Camouflage is useless against
Taliban with a Kashnilkov
And in Sloane square
Arabs race their Bugattis for a dare
Made wealthy on oil money
Protected by homecounty lads with short hair
All the world seems turned upside down
Veterans left forgotten on return
Euro  trumps defending pound
How long till Kinghtsbridge burns.