Posted on 12/26/2006 5:21:20 PM PST by dogbyte12
Just the headline now.
That is exactly my point. It's not about serving, it's about serving in combat zone with such a huge target on your back that anybody near you is in mortal danger constantly.
If the Bush twins were flown to Ambar right now, I would hate to be a marine there. Prince Harry is allegedly going into combat in Iraq. Every abdul, mohammed, and Omar is going to want his scalp. What will the resolve of England and the coalition be if Harry gets blown up along with 20 of his countrymen?
Expect his unit's location and movements to be openly publicized by the media, who would silently rejoice his death because it would be politically bad for GWB and Tony Blair.
I don't see how the gallant Prince could be anything but a liability, given the nature of this war and the ghoulish Abu Gharib media.
Expect his unit's location and movements to be openly publicized by the media, who would silently rejoice his death because it would be politically bad for GWB and Tony Blair.
I don't see how the gallant Prince could be anything but a liability, given the nature of this war and the ghoulish Abu Gharib media.
I admire his grit...the Royals always serve in the British armed forces...it's one of their great traditions...back in the 1950s I saw Mountbatten when he visited Annapolis...the Midshipmen paraded and he trooped the line....he was the finest looking man I ever saw in a uniform....talk about command presence.
It might be instructive for folks to see a British prince lead in battle. I wonder what kind of mission/plan/attack he would carry out.
Point well taken, however they are more likely to try and kidnap the prince to force Brittan out of Iraq.
It would be a much more strategic move.
Aaaaaactually, that's a very interesting question. Very interesting.
Fifty years ago, the Brits would have done the stiff upper lip and tried to win one for Harry. These days, they would turn him into Diana's tragic son and have crying sessions.
One can only hope that he will be as highly regarded as this Subaltern:
The Grave of the Hundred Head
There's a widow in sleepy Chester
Who weeps for her only son;
There's a grave on the Pabeng River,
A grave that the Burmans shun;
And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri
Who tells how the work was done.
A Snider squibbed in the jungle,
Somebody laughed and fled,
And the men of the First Shikaris
Picked up their Subaltern dead,
With a big blue mark in his forehead
And the back blown out of his head.
Subadar Prag Tewarri,
Jemadar Hira Lal,
Took command of the party,
Twenty rifles in all,
Marched them down to the river
As the day was beginning to fall.
They buried the boy by the river,
A blanket over his face --
They wept for their dead Lieutenant,
The men of an alien race --
They made a samadh in his honor,
A mark for his resting-place.
For they swore by the Holy Water,
They swore by the salt they ate,
That the soul of Lieutenant Eshmitt Sahib
Should go to his God in state,
With fifty file of Burmans
To open him Heaven's gate.
The men of the First Shikaris
Marched till the break of day,
Till they came to the rebel village,
The village of Pabengmay --
A jingal covered the clearing,
Calthrops hampered the way.
Subadar Prag Tewarri,
Bidding them load with ball,
Halted a dozen rifles
Under the village wall;
Sent out a flanking-party
With Jemadar Hira Lal.
The men of the First Shikaris
Shouted and smote and slew,
Turning the grinning jingal
On to the howling crew.
The Jemadar's flanking-party
Butchered the folk who flew.
Long was the morn of slaughter,
Long was the list of slain,
Five score heads were taken,
Five score heads and twain;
And the men of the First Shickaris
Went back to their grave again,
Each man bearing a basket
Red as his palms that day,
Red as the blazing village --
The village of Pabengmay,
And the "drip-drip-drip" from the baskets
Reddened the grass by the way.
They made a pile of their trophies
High as a tall man's chin,
Head upon head distorted,
Set in a sightless grin,
Anger and pain and terror
Stamped on the smoke-scorched skin.
Subadar Prag Tewarri
Put the head of the Boh
On the top of the mound of triumph,
The head of his son below --
With the sword and the peacock-banner
That the world might behold and know.
Thus the samadh was perfect,
Thus was the lesson plain
Of the wrath of the First Shikaris --
The price of a white man slain;
And the men of the First Shikaris
Went back into camp again.
Then a silence came to the river,
A hush fell over the shore,
And Bohs that were brave departed,
And Sniders squibbed no more;
For the Burmans said
That a white man's head
Must be paid for with heads five-score.
There's a widow in sleepy Chester
Who weeps for her only son;
There's a grave on the Pabeng River,
A grave that the Burmans shun;
And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri
Who tells how the work was done.
Frankly, I think they are too good at playing to the weakness of western culture (the left) to go for something like that.
Give Em' Hell Harry.bump
Harry seems to have courage and determination. However I think he would be a candidate for kidnapping and ransom which would create an inestimable moral dilemna for the British government.
It would interesting (and embarrassing for Jon Carry) to match grades between Harry and Jf'nK. I'd bet Harry's grades would make Jf'nK look like the class dunce.
I think it shows great leadership--the young man has my respect...
He volunteered. He is being a great leader. Good for him.
He is a trained military officer, would you expect less!!!!
Give it to them Harry! And GOD speed.
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