Whoa! Wait a minute…whose idea was it to take a poll on whether Prince Harry should serve in Iraq? And where was (D), the fourth option…”none of our business”?

I’m on my way home from work when the poll results were given on WGMD and, frankly, first I was stunned and then had to laugh at the audacity of at least the “77% respondents” who said he should. Why? Oh…because he is in the army, of course. That’s not too far from our usual patter of “YEAH! Send our military in there, get the job done…” while sitting on our rumps behind a desk, a counter or digging ditches. It’s okay for anyone to go as long as “it isn’t ME”.

So I’m going to nit-pick a little. First of all, please, please get it right. Harry isn’t a “Prince of England”. He is a prince of the United Kingdom…or Great Britain…or The British Isles, take your pick but England is ONLY England while being a member of the royal family makes him a prince of not just England but Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

Secondly, is it any of our business to state such an opinion on another country? Isn’t that how we get ourselves in trouble, whiningly asking why aren’t we liked, time after time after time?

Three…while male members of the royal family have taken service in the armed forces as their obligation to their country and crown for multiple decades, few in direct line have ever fought in armed conflict (although in recent years Prince Andrew, Harry’s uncle, did serve in the Falkland’s during that debacle). There was a slight difference…Charles was direct heir…still is…and he did have his own heirs who follow suit if something should befall him. The queen is an octogenarian and, despite the fact that I can well see her matching her ancestor Victoria for years on the throne, should something happen to her in the near future, Charles will succeed but…he’s not that young, himself. William would be next…he is in the military and if something should happen to him, it would be Harry who would then succeed since William has no children…at least none that we know of. In other words, Harry is in the line of succession for the foreseeable future and the country probably would never agree to him being in a war zone. I suppose not too far removed from Senators and Congressmen…or a President…who advocate war, sends thousands of OTHER young men and women to fight it (and send them back for multiple tours!) but do nothing to ensure their own offspring…even once…go do what they are asking everyone else’s kid to do.

LOLOLOL!!! I’m still laughing…but I wish I knew why for what a sad lot we are. A discussion is ongoing as to why someone in THIS country…who cannot see anyone worth voting for in an election so wants to abstain…should have the right to be heard when voicing an opinion on political matters or, in fact, any matter affecting the nation. Apparently it’s believed such a person does not have the right to express such an opinion. Yet we can do so for a ruling monarch’s grandson, serving in his own…not our…country’s military? ‘Struth…give me strength

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