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Harry’s excruciating Taliban killing claim hasn’t just created a security nightmare – it’s a blunder his reputation will never recover from
Dailymail.com ^ | 6 January 2023 | Andrew neill

Posted on 01/06/2023 4:40:57 PM PST by Cronos

Among the many incendiary claims in Spare, Prince Harry's upcoming memoir, the boast that he killed 25 Taliban while serving as an Army helicopter pilot in Afghanistan will do him the most long-term damage by far.

I doubt he will recover from it.

Most of the revelations in his book amount to a further public airing of his family's dirty laundry, an endeavour to which he and wife Meghan have devoted their lives since running off in a huff to California. Jaw-dropping as some of them are, their real import serves merely to confirm what most had already concluded about Harry.

Blaming William Kate for encouraging him to dress up as a Nazi for a fancy-dress party in 2005 illustrates his repeated failure to take responsibility for his own stupid actions and reinforces his default position that, no matter his own culpability, he is always the victim.

...he's also breached the long-standing convention among British military veterans of all ranks that they don't talk much about the wars they waged, and never about 'kills'.

Just why Harry decided to flout that convention is best known to himself.

Former Army officers, including those who'd served with him in Afghanistan, are speaking out against what he has said. But I found the testimony of civilians whose fathers and grandfathers had fought in various wars even more telling.

When news broke of Harry's 'kill' claim, I tweeted: 'My father was in uniform against the Nazis for six years. Never once in his long life did he ever talk to me about killing the enemy. Even the concept, much less numbers. And he was at Alamein. On the ground. Not in a helicopter.'

...Harry has placed a large target not just on his own back but on his family's and even his neighbours' backs.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; harry; notcharleskid; spare; unitedkingdom
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

81 posted on 01/06/2023 11:25:18 PM PST by Cronos (.)
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To: Jane Austen
Like most men in such families, Harry was incredibly sheltered. The really hard knocks that grow men up were removed from his path.

Then he fell under the hypnotic sway of this (to him) irresistibly beautiful pathological narcissist (and mother figure). She obviously treats and commands him around like a puppy.

And this recent "blunder" is what you get. He is obviously desperate to demonstrate his manhood (of which he was deprived by being a royal and by his wife).

I don't say this to cut him slack or to excuse his behavior. It is what it is.

That said, someone in his family needs to get to him and try to open his eyes to the destructive effect his wife is having on him, his family, and his country.

82 posted on 01/07/2023 2:08:30 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

“That said, someone in his family needs to get to him and try to open his eyes to the destructive effect his wife is having on him, his family, and his country.”

That’s why the kids were a big part of her plan. Save himself and lose the children? Near impossible position for him now.

Also, if he does walk, she will destroy his reputation by sharing all his intimiate secrets. She’ll certainly scream racism (she already has) and may even claim physical or sexual abuse.

She is pure smoldering black carbon evil.

...also he should get a paternity test, they may not be his.


83 posted on 01/07/2023 5:28:38 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (wake me up when somebody tells the truth)
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To: RummyChick

She had kids to spring the trap.

He should have a paternity test done. They may not be his.


84 posted on 01/07/2023 5:31:56 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (wake me up when somebody tells the truth)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Needs explanation. “...life of her supply” ?


85 posted on 01/07/2023 5:42:51 AM PST by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
Everything you say is true, but there is a way he can withdraw and still have access to his children (perhaps even primary responsibility).

The House of Windsor can make Meghan's life a living hell if she doesn't give them their way...but Harry is going to have to decide. Someone is going to have to break the spell that Harry is under.

86 posted on 01/07/2023 5:43:22 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Rummyfan
Yep. As the old saying goes, you have to hit rock bottom before you can turn around and start swimming for the surface.

Harry's still searching for the bottom...but he's getting awfully close.

87 posted on 01/07/2023 5:46:57 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Churchillspirit; Rummyfan

narcissistic supply

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUnmx3tgKZI


88 posted on 01/07/2023 5:54:48 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (wake me up when somebody tells the truth)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

I agree with your assessment. She planned to meet him and probably studied up on things about Harry. He comes off as the perfect beta male controlled by a designing narcissistic woman.

I imagine most of what he thinks now he never thought before. The grievances have been implanted in him. Beware of a person who enters your life and wants to spoil or take away your family. The only family allowed is her black mother. She wants nothing to do with the rest of them.

It is sad that in most of his interviews he has to have a therapist sitting beside him. This guy is a weak mess. A spoiled weak mess.

I wonder who chose his therapist? I bet we can all guess who.

My advice to Harry is to get a real job. Go to a real job and make a self respected man of yourself.

If your wife doesn’t like it, too bad.


89 posted on 01/07/2023 5:55:49 AM PST by dforest (Joy Behar is a big mouth cow.)
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To: dforest
Harry is like an addict. The first step in his recovery is to stop using the drug.

In his case, the drug is Meghan. He's got to get rid of her before his life will get any better.

90 posted on 01/07/2023 6:36:01 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
That little display with Harry sitting beside her on the couch while she giggled and made tha exaggerated curtsy while mocking his grandmother should have been an eye opener for him because it showed what little respect she had for him. Don't think his family missed that. She drives him and the wedge. They are both genuine tools.
91 posted on 01/07/2023 6:58:54 AM PST by dforest (Joy Behar is a big mouth cow.)
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To: dforest
It has taken me a lifetime to realize something that I actually first saw in HS...and that is that many if not most men will betray everything and everyone (friends, family, children, integrity, wealth, and country) for a certain woman.

I think it mostly has to do with the addictive power of sex (and other brain chemicals). And it depends on the woman.

It is really an amazing thing to behold.

92 posted on 01/07/2023 7:27:11 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: dforest
As an aside, this Harry and Meghan thing reminds us of the power of a femme fatale and just how effective a female spy can be during a time of war.

Some MI6 agents need to abduct Harry for deprogramming. This is a job for Bond.

93 posted on 01/07/2023 7:38:49 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Hi, all—new signup learning the ropes here. I heard about Free Republic in a Twitter chat. I don’t seem to have the option of making a profile yet, so as introduction, I’m a woman, 43, married, Virginian, and Constitutional conservative. Apologies for the hijack & glad to be here.

Harry is actually a pretty nasty piece of work. He’s fought with photographers, been extremely rude with reporters, and there’s a well-known photo of him in a temper fit, arms folded & scowling, while Kate and some man try to reason with him. I think he and Markle deserve each other. She did pursue him, but he’s no innocent baby. He’s almost 40 and he bears the blame for alienating his family. I’ll never forgive him for trashing them while his grandparents were sick and dying.


94 posted on 01/07/2023 4:03:18 PM PST by Stone Creek
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To: silverleaf
With the way the Muzzies are reproducing in Britain and “Mohamed’’ being the most popular male child's name I'd say in about 20 years, 30 tops there will be no more royal family. They'll be dead at the hands of the Muzzies or at the very least confined in Dartmoor.
95 posted on 01/07/2023 6:43:50 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: RummyChick

That is a super weird story. When I read more about it, it turned out that afterwards Diana said that in later years the baby’s remains might be found, and “people would think it was hers.”

Why would Rosa Monckton want her stillborn daughter buried secretly, like that? Inexplicable. Apparently, they got around palace security by telling them that it was a burial of a pet.

It turns out that Rosa Monckton was a contact of Epstein, and several of her contact numbers were in his notebook. Hmmmm ...


96 posted on 01/07/2023 8:40:30 PM PST by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: RoosterRedux

He may also be addicted to ordinary drugs.


97 posted on 01/07/2023 8:42:45 PM PST by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: dforest
I imagine most of what he thinks now he never thought before. The grievances have been implanted in him. Beware of a person who enters your life and wants to spoil or take away your family.

In the Oprah interview, Harry said that he had been trapped in his old life, but never realised it, until Meghan rescued him. He sounded exactly like someone who had joined a cult.

My advice to Harry is to get a real job. Go to a real job and make a self respected man of yourself.

Excellent advice. If he had a proper profession, a role in life, he would see the past as past, and move on with things that are worthwhile.

98 posted on 01/07/2023 8:46:08 PM PST by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: cpdiii
Harry did kill them this is good. It was his job and honorable. What he has done since marrying Megan is a tragedy to The Crown.

Harry made a mistake in leaving the military, where he distinguished himself and found structure and purpose. Especially for a self-centered conniver like Meghan.

99 posted on 01/07/2023 10:40:15 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: RoosterRedux

“ It has taken me a lifetime to realize something that I actually first saw in HS...and that is that many if not most men will betray everything and everyone (friends, family, children, integrity, wealth, and country) for a certain woman.”

I completely agree. It’s as though they are transformed instantly into unthinking slaves... They’ll betray their buddies, they’ll betray their family, they’ll allow themselves to be treated like dirt over and over, and yet they still stay with the woman, faithful as an obedient dog. It’s truly astonishing when you witness it.


100 posted on 01/09/2023 11:26:00 AM PST by ladyrustic
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