Reply #32: Promoting chaos, are you? We need standing military forces. [View All]

[Divernan]

Afghanistan is a completely different situation than Iraq. One might say hopeless in a different way. But as long as a country has armed forces, and those troops are sent into a battle, it is honorable of a prince who could easily avoid the danger, to insist on serving alongside his countrymen/women.
I oppose(d) every war since WW II. But I hold governments responsible, not individual soldiers. Wishing Prince Harry's cover blown is wishing him to become the prime target of the entire war there. Obviously that is why he couldn't go there openly. As an educated and informed person, you should know that the United Kingdom is no longer a monarchy. The UK did not start the nightmare that is Afghanistan - that was the old USSR on the one side, and the CIA supporting the Afghan rebels on the other.