War Games

[Achebe]

I work with migrants and refugees. Many of them are highly literate - doctors, lawyers, academics - and although English is their fourth or fifth language, they master it quickly. Please don't tell me you believe Murdoch media propaganda.

Oh yes, many of them are likely to be highly educated, but very rarely would they be able to write at your level (that of the narrator)
Not because they're not smart, but because English is not their native language.
Jeez, if English is not your native language it's very hard impossible to write well in it, refugee or not 

How hysterical do you think you'd be if the street you grew up in was reduced to rubble and your children were hunted through the streets to amuse enemy soldiers?

you have a point, but I still think it'd work better if it were understated.