The madness of saving Jessica (gag)

Evening Standard (U.K.) ^ | 04/08/03 | Brian Sewell

[oyez]

I'd give a months pay for Brian Sewell to give me this essay in person.

[Trailerpark Badass]

prove it...

Proving an absurdity is impossible. One might argue that this mission was undertaken for publicity/morale reasons (though I would not totally agree; the Son Tay prison raid panners and politicos who signed off on it most certainly considered public and troop morale as side benefits), but it is absurd to think that man's instinctive "nature" had anything to do with this rescue.

[AbsoluteJustice]

I am sorry but the two of you are getting nowhere in this conversation....Then again in the Marines we introduced the motto LEAVE NO MAN BEHIND.....First to go last to know :)

[TheSpottedOwl]

In West Virginia, Jessica's rescue is attributed not only to the army, but to God in equal measure, God invoked by the power of prayer. It has occurred to none of them that if God had anything to do with it, he would have stayed the hands of Bush and Blair and sent no one into battle.

If the people of West Virginia (and elsewhere) praised Gaia, his tone would be different, praising that brave warrior for standing her ground until she was out of bullets, then surviving torture and broken limbs.

Puke is right, and Mr. Sewer is full of it.

[stands2reason]

Well he's

1. An art critic,

2. Snotty, and

3. British

I'd say more than even odds...

[demosthenes the elder]

not bad at all.

[Ditto]

It's not her complaining, it's the selfserving voices speaking for her

That's sure as hell not her fault. I agree the hype is getting over the top and if it were a guy, it would have likely settled down by now. But that does not mean that she or the military have done anything wrong.

[fightinJAG]

EXCELLENT letter.

You go, Yankee!

[dead]

In reality, search & rescue is done BY RANK first, Occupational Specialty second, and I would venture to guess, by sex.

Does the prospect of success ever enter into the equation?

I’d imagine the situation was never presented to you, but if you learned there was an American POW being tortured eight miles away in a very lightly guarded hospital, do you believe you would have been told to ignore that information, even if the POW was a butt-ugly grunt?

[NavyCaptain]

You are darn correct. We'd go after any American "or BRIT" with the same enthusiasm and gusto!

[Zavien Doombringer]

I never mentioned the military had done anything wrong, I support the military, I wouldn't have joined if I didn't.

[dead]

She was doing her job. Which as I understand it was to get from A to B in a truck.....hhhmmmmm.

I know what you’re trying to imply, but the fact is she could not have been the one who “got lost” on the mission. Guys don’t let chicks drive.

[cubreporter]

Mr. Sewell sounds like a very, very bitter little man. He should be ashamed of himself but reading the venom spewed from his mouth I doubt he knows the meaning of the word.

God Bless Jessica Lynch and her rescuers. Thank God she nor any of the other troops had to depend on this idiot for anything much less a heroic rescue effort.

[Catspaw]

You are darn correct. We'd go after any American "or BRIT" with the same enthusiasm and gusto!

You bet.

The difference between us and them is that we respect human life. Their torture chambers and prisons demonstrate that.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Which she knew full and well when she volunteer this could happen. She went to Basic, she held the guns, she knew what they were for. It wasn't a mystery and she accepted it AS HER JOB!!!

Damn skippy, Professor. You're probably used to a certain type of female out there at Tidewater, not the kind that learns how to shoot game before she learns how to ride a bike. I don't suppose you bothered reading up on her? She joined to get money for college....to become a kindergarten teacher.

[Nonstatist]

Some people have to be contrary all the time. I think its a power thing.

It's an academia thing, too. Contrary and clever is extolled over objective and direct. By idle blowhards who spend much of their spare time "deconstructing" the "conventional". Very, very pathetic, indeed ..

[Sender]

(From an online bio on Brian Sewell:)

Expert: Arts/Music

Competent: Entertainment/Humour

Personal description: A fine art expert, he is the Art Critic for the Evening Standard and has won the award for "Art Critic of the Year" on several occasions. He has also translated a number of books on Art from French into English and has written about his extensive travels, notably to Turkey in his book "South from Ephesus".

Languages Expert: English, French

Presentation description: Brian is also known as an experienced broadcaster and has contributed to programmes for both radio and television, including various commercials for ITV.

Also known as a "freelance bassoonist" and a "controversial art critic".

Also known as a pathetic snivelling a-hole not fit to write about anything more substantial than playing with himself.

[dead]

I'm gonna start calling everybody who pisses me off a "freelance bassoonist."

It seems to fit so perfectly.