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| Capture the flag |
| 2007-10-22 |
| W. Thomas Smith, Jr., National Review This is ballsy. Insanely so. I snatched a Hezbollah flag — the yellow banner with the green fist and rifle — from one of the enemy's strongholds in Lebanon recently. And when I say stronghold, I literally mean a strong, heavily defended battle position where the Lebanese Army and police dare not enter, and I had to enter covertly. Kathryn[ Jean Lopez, NR Editor,] knows about it. I'm pretty sure she thinks I'm nuts. I'm also pretty sure she might be right. But I did it for two reasons: First, in my often flawed logic I figured that if the terrorists caught me taking the flag, they would — as expressed by a former Christian militiaman who was with me at the time — “cut my head” (meaning “cut my head off”). But the way I saw it, they would “cut my American head” if they caught me flag or no flag anyway. Second, I hate those guys. Hezbollah, you'll remember, murdered 241 of my brothers when they blew up the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 when I was just a wee-rifleman in the Corps. The enemy stronghold where I snatched the flag was not far from the site of the bombing. Of course, because there were others involved with me in the flag capture who are still in Lebanon, I cannot — for the sake of their own security — detail the particulars of our little mission. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #3 Nucking futs. If you're going to take that big a risk, make it worthwhile - kill Nasrallah or somebody instead of stealing a flag. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-10-22 22:22 |
| #2 Be careful from now on - you don't have to be a high-profile Celeb or Politico, etc. to be a PYWAR target in war. INFO-PSYCHOLOGICAL/ PERCEPTIONS WARFARE IS STILL WAR IN ANY ENEMY'S BOOK. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-10-22 18:16 |
| #1 I hope you plan to display it proudly on your living room wall, on return. Jim D |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-10-22 14:34 |