[Steve_Seattle]

This guy suffers from a bad case of courage-envy. He is so self-centered, he can't believe the rest of the world isn't just like him.

[MineralMan]

"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? "

Yup. Happens all the time. We go in and get our own soldiers. That's it. And what's the deal with "incestuous?" This Brit doesn't know his butt from his mouth, and he's talking out of the wrong one. Feh!

[Grampa Dave]

One can only hope that this maggot gets to finish his hate speech with a former or current SAS member.

[taxcontrol]

To Brian Stwell (author of this opinion paper)

I doubt sir you have ever served. For you do not know the most basic rule of combat units -

Everyone fights, no one quits, no one gets left behind.

I trusted my fellow soldiers to do what was right and look out for my hide - I did the same for them. We were brothers in arms and would do what ever it took to bring one of ours home.

I believe that had this been a "volunteer only" mission, you would have had to decide which of the volunteers you use on the mission and which would not be allowed to go. Not because of Lynch - but because a brother in arms was in need.

Sir you speak about which you have no knowledge.

[graycamel]

PUKE? THAT'S WHAT THE ARTICLE IS!

[thatdewd]

I wanna kick this guy's ass. HARD.

[narby]

Brian Sewell = Brian Sewer

[jwfiv]

The writer of this article, and the words written, make me puke.

Pinchy pendejo! Miserable, vomitous mass...warthog-faced buffon...I challenge him to a duel to the pain...wretched, simply wretched

[sandym1313]

Women should be the army's clerks, cooks and bottlewashers, its doctors and nurses, its counters of beans and buttons, but never - even though I can imagine nothing more terrifying than a battalion of bearded lesbians - bearers of arms, never frontline soldiers.

I do believe that this was a supply and maintainence crew. The Clerks, etc.

I as a woman have doubts that woman should be in the front line but only because they are a distraction.

Not because they are not capable. Never ever cross an angry woman

[dennis1x]

though written a little too dramatically and with undertones of US hate, the premise of the article is right on and I have thought of those points many times myself.

[matthew_the_brain]

Actually, this 'puke' makes a point by focusing on why a woman of her caliber was put in this position in the first place.

Jessica should not have been there, she was not trained to do so.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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'!)

[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.