What a POS....that left that comment on the site.
The world is full of them, and he is probably some fat, pimply faced ahole that never did anything noble. Their idea of “fighting for their country” is limited to pushing their way to the front of the welfare line, or wrestling for the last bag of potato chips.
I assume you are referring to this comment by " Fu Man Chu ":
Have I woken up in 1898 or something? This kind of nasty news makes me ill. Killing is killing. Killing of men is not sport. Its not akin to cricket or a game of ruggah. You might get medals and brisk handshakes but most rational people see what you are - a murderer...
(and he goes on for a bit...)
They gave him some pretty good replies...
Well Fu Man Chu, all I'd say is that soldiers don't get the option of where their sent and what to do when they get there. They just go and do the best they can.
And with that in mind my two pennyworth's says that Craig Harrison is a genuine role model and I'd consider it a privilege to shake him by the hand and tell him so to his face.
Fu Man Chu. Some of your observations are correct but most are the rantings of a fool.
Man only has one purpose in life and that is to protect and promote his family, tribe and country, anything else is just icing on the cake.
Life is a matter of survival of the fittest and the devil take the hindmost.
The UK has strayed from this universal natural law and is now the country of the survival of the weakest.
Well Fu Man Chu - do we need any more proof that manhood is dying out with you to look to? What is your method of defending your countrymen - hide under a convenient bed? Thank God there are still a few good men like Craig Harrison left around to keep you safe while you hide. You completely overlooked the point that Harrison was firing at two enemy machinegunners firing at your countrymen. His precise shooting and consummate skill saved their lives and those of their subsequent victims. Evil exists and is present now as it always has been. If men (and lately women) aren't available to risk their lives to confront and defeat evil, evil wins as it always has. People like you never face fire, never risk anything for anyone yet never seem to run out of nastiness for those who do have courage. Rage away Fu Man Chu - you'll never be a tiny fraction of those men and women that face our enemies for all the rest of you.
Fu Man Chu: If everyone thought like you there would be no war, no crime and no violence. Unfortunately, there is no utopia - just reality. And for that we need men and women strong enough to defend the rest of us from evil, be they the police or our Armed Forces.
Ah poor,poor Fu. Some good points and of course all of us recognise the ultimate senselessness of war and combat while at the same time acknowledging that until the human race changes in some fundamental way we are stuck with it. I read something the other day and as i read your passage i immediately thought of you.
War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worse than war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he cares about more than his own personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Fu Man Chu: I respect your views and share some of them. But to denounce a professional soldier for doing his job to the best of his ability is below disrespectful. The hearth and homeland is defended wherever you can meet and face your enemy; he who threatens you. And you destroy the enemy by whatever means at your disposal, before he destroys you or your family, friends and comrades. I assure you that the TB take great pleasure in killing Westerners be they military or civilian. Soldiers take a grim satisfaction and little more. Enter the arena friend; and feel the stress, heat and fear. And thank God for people like Craig Harrison. RIP Harry Patch.
@ Fu Man Chu, and all his Recommenders.
There are many arguments to bring 'the boys' home: righteous anger, more in sorrow than in anger, wouldn't it be a sensible thing to do, think of the waste of money, we'll never win, etc..
Yours is a new angle (the brotherhood of man argument) on what really amounts to 'leave my Muslim brothers in Afghanistan alone.'
But it doesn't work. Everyone sees through it. And your real name, by the way? It certainly isn't Fu Man Chu.