Norman Kember, former hostage, interviewed on BBC Radio 4:
“They were brave, but I disagree with their profession… It’s ironic isn’t it?: You go as a peace activist and you’re rescued by the SAS.”
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Volumes i tell ya. Volumes.
If the SAS knew he was an Alanis Morissette fan, they’d’ve thrown him back.
“It’s ironic isn’t it?: You go as an SAS soldier to root out terrorists and end up wasting your time saving the wilting behind of some clod from back home.”
No, it isn’t bloody “ironic”. It’s bloody paradoxical. Silly old fool.
I think that was the essence of Eliot’s comment.
Written reports on the BBCs website include a line I haven’t heard broadcast on news bulletins.
Mr Kember said of the SAS: ‘… you go as a peace activist and you are rescued by the SAS, which is perhaps the most violent of all the British forces’. It’s still not an irony; it just shows he really hasn’t a clue. Perhaps he’d have preferred to have been rescued by the medical corps or maybe the chaplaincy. Definitely not by the nasty old SAS with all their violence.
I think Kember’s words of SAS being the most violent force was broadcast, and I vaguely remember that the presenter even asked him what he expected the soldiers to make of his remark.
Oh well, if he’d been a New Zealander he’d probably have said it was iconic. Anyway, it was undoubtedly an opportunity for General Nidgett’s Royal Army Tailoring Corps.