The madness of saving Jessica (gag)

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

[steve-b]

What nonsense. Ultimately, the rescue was done 1)because we got a good opportunity to do it and 2)to secure a witness that will send a few more Ba'athist thugs to the rope dance.

The issue of women in combat has nothing to do with the matter, and should be argued on its own merits.

[Zavien Doombringer]

Being conservative and chivalrous are different?

[dead]

That is a problem on the battle field, but his, and your, point that our military wouldn't mount the same exact mission if PFC Lynch was a male is wrong and asinine.

You couldn't keep those special forces back when faced with the opportunity to recover one of their own and kill a bunch of torturing scumbags in the process.

[Snake65]

"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?"

What a dillweed. And a snob. It's obvious that the only "servicemen" he spends any time with are janitors. Any good report of the location of our POWs would have led to a balls-to-the-wall effort to get them back.

[GeorgiaYankee]

Even though I agree with the writer's last paragraph, the article is offensive. >>>

The last paragraph says that women should not be "frontline soldiers." She was not a frontline soldier, she was in a Maintenance unit that took a wrong turn. The US military does not allow women to serve in frontline ground combat units.

Besides being offensive and insulting, this article is full of falsehoods and false assumptions. The writer asks loaded questions, then makes up the answers from his own demented imagination.

[albee]

Zavien Doombringer signed up 2003-02-04.

Welcome to Free Republic! I'm sure the Democratic Underground will sorely miss your insight, knowledge and brainpower!

[Jerry_M]

"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 ...? "

Yes.

We don't leave anyone behind. (Something that this writer will never understand.)

[elbucko]

If a soldier's mind is not wholly engaged in battle, he is a risk to himself and his immediate mates - the last thing a soldier needs is a corporal of poetic mind or a philosopher for a sergeant, the one reciting Horace,

Exactly. Which is why I would not want to be in combat with this disgusting, self absorbed moron of a writer.

[deJaz]

It's so hard to believe anyone in their mind could think the way you do.It's a shame that you could disrespect a soldier that was fighting for freedom and liberation of the iraqi people.She put her life in danger just by being over there.Shame on you.God Bless America and All the brave soldiers.

[m1911]

America started bringing home her war dead after WWII (not sure about Korea), up until then we shared with Britain the tradition of burying our soldiers in the land where they died. I'm not sure why that changed, but I suspect the POW thing changed at the same time. It probably speaks to some profound change in our culture, but I'll be darned if I know what it is.

[Believe_In_The_Singularity]

If you want to see incestuous, look at your "Royal" family.

BITS

[lsee]

editor@thisislondon.co.uk

Apparently, Sewell has quite a reputation for inflammatory remarks.Sewell's Sewer

Sewell's Sewer A British columnist applies the worst anti-Semitic diatribes to Israel's handling of the Intifada. What followed was a storm of public protest.

On November 3, 2000, London's Evening Standard printed an article by Brian Sewell entitled "Bible Stories." The article draws a gross parallel between the Nazi slaughter of 6 million Jews, and Israel's clumsy way of handling the recent riots. Sewell also refers to "International Jewry," a phrase popularized by the anti-Semitic text, the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," and used regularly by Adolf Hitler and every anti-Semite since.

Sewell makes a whole series of unsubstantiated historical claims -- Palestinians "cut off from Holy Places of Islam" and questioning whether the land of Israel could have been as "Jewish as the Bible implies." Sewell then justifies lynching by saying that he would perhaps have done it himself in the same position.

Following the publication of Sewell's article, HonestReporting sent out a letter to its subscribers, which at the time numbered less than 1,000 subscribers. Still, the wave of reader outrage was so great that the Evening Standard printed two separate follow-up articles: "Sewell sparks wave of protests" and "Sewell and Israel."

After more pressure, the Evening Standard published an unprecedented counter-opinion piece entitled, "Why Brian Sewell was wrong." Says writer Simon Sebag Montefiore: "[Sewell's] article was so riddled with clumsy mistakes, historical lacunae and silly ignorance about basic events, that it would take this entire page to correct."

This is a prime example of what HonestReporting can accomplish when we work together.

[arthurus]

. If men would wise up and realize

If only human nature would change!

[stands2reason]

That's an awful quick assumption that the man is heterosexual.

[stands2reason]

That's an awful quick assumption that the man is heterosexual.

[stands2reason]

When and in what branch did you serve?

[Zavien Doombringer]

Nice of you to offer, I suppose you think that because I am a professor at a Community College that I am liberal...NOT!
I am infact a conservative/ constitutionalist

[Ditto]

"What did Jessica do to become a Hero? She was doing her job!"

Her "job" could have just as easily been as a clerk at a Wall Mart in West Virginia, not with the US Army in Iraq. She volunteered for a job that could put her in harm's way in the service of her country.

[Not A Snowbird]

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

Scott O'Grady wasn't in prison. He was never captured.