Even for the WSJ, this is sheer hypocrisy

[question everything]

The Wall Street Journal Editorial

'Cry God for Harry!'

February 24, 2007; Page A8

(snip)

The news is that Prince Charles's younger son, Harry, a junior officer in the Household Cavalry, will later this year deploy to southern Iraq even as the British government begins withdrawing some of its troops. "There's no way I'm going to put myself through Sandhurst , and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country," he told one interviewer. The Prince's decision is all the more courageous given that he will surely become a prime target for jihadists seeking a trophy kill.

No less admirable is the Prince bucking the antiwar tide of British public opinion. A cartoon in the Guardian newspaper has him sitting backward in the saddle, his sword raised under the caption "Into the Valley of Death." That may typify the views of London's fashionable Islington set. But we suspect that most Britons, even those who oppose the war, will find reason to admire a young man who grasps that the essence of monarchy -- and its best justification -- lies not in its titles and luxuries but in its sense of duty, loyalty and honor.

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[LibDemAlways]

1. Where is the WSJ editorial urging wealthy

and privileged young repukes like the Bush twins and Jeb's spawn to sign up? Or are well-healed Americans exempt from the same "duty, loyalty, and honor" expected of an English Royal? It would certainly seem so.

[rodeodance]

2. It is EXACTLY BECAUSE the Prince is a trophy kill that he puts his men

at increased risk! Geesh!

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Perhaps those closest to him will be the safest British troops there

Because of the extra protection he'll have, whether he knows it or not.

[Briar]

4. I suppose it is just possible that this is the WSJ

urging the cream of the young Republican aristocracy to go to war, but speaking as a Brit, I think there are better ways of demonstrating duty, loyalty and honour than going off to kill citizens of foreign countries who are resisting an illegal occupation. Especially honour. In fact honour killings are particularly abhorrent to me.