The diplomats and planners, on the other hand, argue that the Iraqi opposition, especially the main organisation, the Iraqi National Congress, cannotbecomparedto the Northern Alliance.
He is quick to add that these games cannot quite becomparedto South Africa's hosting of the Cricket World Cup in 2003 because that "was a matter of national pride".
It cannotbe easily compared with past unemployment figures, because since 1979 umpteen changes to the definition of unemployment and to the rules for claiming benefit have taken hundreds of thousands off the jobless total.
In many instances, research at the community level cannot even be delegated to the equivalent of laboratory assistants since observation in one locale must becomparedto observation in another so the same person has tobe on site in both places.