No more than an elephant can use its trunk to swat a swarm of gnats, is modern, conventional military technology capable of putting an end to low-intensity war.
It is no use sending a swarm of gnats to swat an elephant, because it does not work.
Having accepted the peace plan—or, so to speak, the camel—they are straining at gnats.
So having swallowed the camel we must not strain at the gnat of the order.
You have the camel; you ought not to strain at the gnat.
I shall not be guilty of straining at the gnat or swallowing a camel.
It is a steam roller, admittedly to crush a gnat, but it is a steam roller.
We are in danger, if we accept the new clause, of creating a camel to strain at one or two gnats.
