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Who Dares Wins

Friday 30th November 2007 14:22 in Film, Politics

SAS EmblemThis classic old film illustrates what will invariably happen (and what did indeed happen in the Iranian embassy siege of 1980) when terrorists are stupid enough to invite the Special Air Service (SAS) into their lives.

The SAS are not interested in taking prisoners. They are effectively an execution squad. Part of the reason the members dress as they do is to instill fear and alarm into their enemy: you do not want to be faced with a man dressed head-to-toe in black, wearing a gas mask and carrying a submachine gun, the product of 15 years’ professional training by the British Army in how to kill, who is going to shoot you on sight.

The film shows how things can go wrong in raids (when the curtains catch fire) and it shows how weak-minded leftist liberals are often the source of the problem and not the solution, as they idealistically simplify complex issues. It is not a complete fantasy, being as it was based on the Iranian embassy incident and Lewis Collins served in the Territorial Army and applied to the SAS (he was turned down because of his high profile).

During the Iranian embassy incident, by the way, it is said that one SAS member, on realising that one of the terrorists had escaped along with the hostages, identified the man and began to drag him back inside the building. We need hardly guess what would have happened there, but he stopped (much to the chagrin, no doubt, of Mrs Thatcher) after being warned the world’s TV cameras were watching.

Watch, enjoy, and be thankful we in the civilised world have such brave men doing a job few of us could do - a last uncompromising line of defence to protect us in a world which is now far more dangerous, and more full of insanity, than when this film was made. (And if you are a religious nut - watch, learn, and think twice: when these guys arrive you won’t need your explosive belt.)

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