On Thursday, Mr. Qanooni said that the alliance would agree to such a force as part of a larger agreement on a temporary government, and that Afghans would "prefer" soldiers from other predominantly Muslim countries.
Service members prefer gay soldiers to fat ones.
Most would prefer their soldiers to do pleasanter things, like doling out food, rebuilding shattered villages or donning blue helmets for traditional UN peacekeeping.
Soldiers preferred novels, tales of adventure, and detective stories.
There was a reason German soldiers preferred to be captured by American forces during World War II, and this was because they knew how they would be treated in United States custody as opposed to being captured by the Russians.
The best parallel I can imagine is the war, when tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers preferred dying in hopeless circumstances rather than surrendering -- because of the power of shame".
A day after a pro-Russian separatist leader said that Russian soldiers preferred to spend their holidays fighting in Ukraine, Mr Putin sent his defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, to represent him at the Slovak National Uprising celebration, held at a museum dedicated to the rebellion in the central Slovak city of Banská Bystrica.
Like Mr. Clinton, the new president will not want to send American soldiers to Africa, preferring to train soldiers in Nigeria as peacekeepers for places like Sierra Leone.
By showing that Bin Laden personally asked for, and received, four files' worth of the WikiLeaks material supplied by Manning, Fein said, the prosecution would prove one element of the first charge it has preferred against the soldier – that he "knowingly gave intelligence to the enemy through indirect means".
First released in the 1830s, Baedeker's works featured such precise maps that soldiers often preferred them to government ones.
