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From: LindyBill	9/15/2009 5:21:16 AM
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"Have some of this" [Mark Steyn] I wish the American press had more tales of derring-do from the front lines. Fleet Street seems to have more of an appetite for it. I particularly like the rediscovery of the uses of the good old British bayonet. The Telegraph has a good account of Lieutenant James Adamson, who was awarded the Military Cross for "supreme physical courage" in killing two Taliban in Helmand: The 24-year-old officer, a member of the 5th battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, revealed that he shouted "have some of this" before shooting dead a gunman who had just emerged from a maize field. Seconds later and out of ammunition, the lieutenant leapt over a river bank and killed a second insurgent machine-gunner with a single thrust of his bayonet in the man's chest... "I either wasted vital seconds changing the magazine on my rifle or went over the top and did it more quickly with the bayonet. "I took the second option. I jumped up over the bank of the river. He was just over the other side, almost touching distance. "We caught each other's eye as I went towards him but by then, for him, it was too late." "They don't like it up 'em," as Corporal Jones was wont to say. On the other hand, The Scotsman's readers don't seem to care for the whole business: One of Oliver's Army in a country thousands of miles away, running around a desert with a bayonet. All because there are some oil pipes running through it. Or is it because George Bush said "God told me to invade Afghanistan"? It's so embarrassing and pitiful... ...not one contributor has offered any condolences to Afghan families. Perhaps it's the clinical term "collateral damage" which will be used. If you believe that Afghan lives are not equal to Anglo/Saxon lives, then you can't be defined as human. Actually, I don't believe even the Democrats define enemy combatants in a machine-gun nest as "collateral damage". But no doubt it's only a matter of time.. The Corner on National Review Online (14 September 2009) corner.nationalreview.com

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