A Prince for a Soldier

So, Prince Harry has been serving in Afghanistan. Surely that is the ultimate that a royal can do for his people? Yet he seems so young. He looks like a boy. He talks like a boy. He uses young people’s everyday language. He says that his grandmother thought it was a good thing, but he says it as if she was glad to get rid of him. I think she may have meant it in the sense of it would do him good, but also in the sense that it would be an extremely noble thing for a young royal to do. And he seems to enjoy the adventure of it. Both he and Prince William think that has mother would have been proud. Prince William is said to be jealous.
It is a little different this time. He is, or has been, on active service. Royals have tended to be figureheads in the past. He makes light of it, but he does seem to have been brave. They’ve had to bring him back now, of course, because with the whole world knowing that he’s in Afghanistan, he’s in a dangerous position. He’d be a great prize for the Taliban. His continued presence would bring danger to those around him. More danger than he’s already in, that is. He says he’s disappointed at the way the press gave him away, but he doesn’t say angry. Very restrained of him when you think what happened to his mother.
I still wonder, though, if there were no soldiers, would there be no more wars? It’s a little complex, because don’t we all feel the right to defend what we regard to be ours? In the Afghanistan crisis, it might be to do with preserving a life style. Often war though is about property, and we should ask do we actually ever really own anything? Compare Christianity with Communism on this matter.