The madness of saving Jessica (gag)

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

[Pokey78]

Don't worry about it. I wear his/her/its insult as a badge of honor.

[dead]

Did you have any intelligence on the prison Scott O'Grady was being held? Different situation!

No jackass. The point is, he was injured and behind enemy lines, and we risked lives to go in and get him.

We have pilots still being held prisoner in Iraq, did anyone dare go get them?

Speaking of intelligence about enemy prisons, perhaps you can tell me where they are being held. If the military knew, and had a reasonable chance to extricate them, they would launch an operation in a minute.

Now pick up your lip Jackass!

I guess that made sense to you when you wrote it. No wonder you find yourself thirteenth grade, Einstein.

[Cachelot]

Would so many men and so much expensive machinery have been risked for the rescue of a jar-head marine of 19

Yes.

On the other hand, no one should expend as much as a dime to save Sewell.

[Slainte]

Son Tay, 1970.

[sandym1313]

Further to this point. They are only a distraction because our views have not changed. If men would wise up and realize that a woman does not necessarily need to be taken care of all this would be a moot point.

this author makes me really angry.

[Mamzelle]

re: I am certain that no such effort would have been made to rescue a young man of her age and inexperience. )))

That's a lie. An outrageous, insulting lie. I stopped reading right there.

That she's become something of a mascot is a matter for building morale.

I'd like to punch this guy a good one.

[Hatteras]

Scott O'Grady wasn't a POW.

[Shermy]

Seems the puke has a variety of hatreds.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2656705.stm>Art 'too good' for Northerners

Art lovers in the North are not sophisticated enough to appreciate a new exhibition due to open on Tyneside, it is claimed.

Controversial London-based art critic Brian Sewell says the exhibition, by a group of post-war artists, should be on display in the capital. .......

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I know. We risked lives to rescue him from enemy territory. That was my point.

[PistolPaknMama]

I can imagine nothing more terrifying than a battalion of bearded lesbians

Almost as scarey as British pansies pretending to be writers. The only part he got right was the "puke" part.

[Smedley]

Would so many men and so much expensive machinery have been risked for the rescue of a jar-head marine of 19, a black boy of 19, a homosexual boy of 19 or a poor white boy of 19 from the same incestuous hills of West Virginia among which Jessica was born?

This guy hates 19 year olds.

[CatoRenasci]

This "gentleman" should receive a visit from Pfc Lynch's male relatives, and perhaps some of the gentlemen from the Delta Force or other special operations troops who rescued her. The result of this visit can be anticipated to be a thoroughly readjused attitude on Mr. Sewell's part.

[elbucko]

"America doesn't leave its heroes behind, it never has, it never will," were the weasel words of a US army spokesman -

I don't think these are "weasel words", this is the memory of the MIA's of Vietnam. Leaving no one behind has long been a tradition of the US military. The lessons of Vietnam have made this policy a political one as well, which it wasn't in the 60's.

Jessica Lynch, for all the questions regarding her situation, is a little blonde memorial to those we did leave behind, and a reminder to the brass that they should be thoughtful of who, and for what, when they send soldiers into harms way.

[arthurus]

Would so many men and so much expensive machinery have been risked for the rescue of a jar-head marine of 19, a black boy of 19, a homosexual boy of 19 or a poor white boy of 19

In the same circumstances, with the information brought to our guys by a local, yes we would have done it and it would still be a morale booster and a PR coup though without the pizzazz of rescuing the girl.

There is some question as to whether an Iraqi lawyer would have felt the same distress at the mistreatment of a male soldier.

All in all it is a good argument for removing our girls from the battlefield and from the ships and from the combat aircraft.

[In The Defense of Liberty]

Yeah, well, this idiot's words stand on their own... and reveal is incredible stupidity.

On a more humourous note, I can't wait for this bloke to go home to the 'trouble and strife'... because once she's read this drivel she's sure to kick him right in the curly bits! (Not to mention it will be a l-o-n-g time before he has any further marital 'privileges'!)

[DudleyDoright]

Oh, art critic. That explains his qualifications to hold forth on the suitability of ANYBODY to perform on the battlefield.

Personally, if that poofter was the last guy left in Saddam's jails, I'd eat the key.

[GovernmentShrinker]

She's a symbol of lots of good things. Of the sort of young people who give this nation a bright future. Of daring missions by strong brave men to rescue damsels in distress. Of the triumph of good over evil. Let everybody enjoy and celebrate the symbol -- we know that what it really stands for is a lot bigger than just Jessica Lynch herself.

[Zavien Doombringer]

And how many wars have we had since Viet Nam? How many left there and not extracted? The point is that man would instinctively go save a woman before a man. A man in his natural mind would want to protect and defend a woman's honor (mostly for selfish reasons of course) but it is nature that dictates this.

[Cachelot]

We risked lives to rescue him from enemy territory

Saw something interesting the other day. A British analyst they have on Sky News was discussing the Lynch rescue and made some remarks to the effect that this is very much American military tradition - but that Britain has no such tradition and would, in fact, not try and rescue POW's.

[Ditto]

I am certain that no such effort would have been made to rescue a young man of her age and inexperience.

The guy has no idea what the hell he is talking about.