[Catspaw]

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?

Yes.

What an insult to Pfc. Lynch, her family, our Armed Forces and to the United States of America.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

He managed to insult everyone in one article - and that is no mean feat.

[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.

[DonQ]

Jessie Lynch is the first - the very first - American POW rescued during hostilities since WW2. All those Rambo and Chuck Norris movies about liberating Americans in Vietnam are cowflop; it hadn't been done in more than half a century.

And they did it because they had an Iraqi civilian who told them where an American was being held. They probably had only the vaguest clue as to her identity before they actually found her inside the hospital. But, considering they were doing something historic, they very probably would have done the same even if they were rescuing Al Sharpton.

[NavyCaptain]

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