Harry A Regular Guy In Afghanistan? Hah!
For all the spin about Prince Harry being just another soldier as he made his return to Afghanistan on Friday last week, enduring the long flight from the UK to the desert in a regular troop carrier, the truth is actually far from that. The most obvious indicator of the uncomfortable fact of his VIP status is that Harry reportedly has armed guards accompanying him at all times inside Camp Bastion, the heavily fortified fortress city of 28,000 army troops in Helmand province, to protect him against “green on blue†attacks, in which rogue Afghan army soldiers turn their guns on allied troops. Harry is being coddled in other ways, too, which leads to my question: what the hell is the point of his being in Afghanistan if so many other personnel have to be tasked to protect him — personnel who could usefully be doing other things?
