I have found this opinion excellent, and I fully agree with it:

"Thing is, if Harry really is a lightning rod that provokes extra attacks, well, what's so bad about that? The insurgents were going to be attacking someone somewhere, the only difference now is that they're choosing someone else somewhere else. If the insurgents spend extra effort targeting specific military units that's GOOD, because military units can fight back. Better them plotting how to take out Harry than blowing up funerals and marketplaces.

And Harry is the spare, not the heir. And the whole point of an aristocracy is that they go off on adventures whacking the heads off of evildoers, or getting their own heads whacked off. Er, chopped off. Anyway, Harry's no more indispensible than any other young man. If they didn't want him going to Iraq they should have thought of that before they sent troops to Iraq. Harry is a dispensible person. The fact that he's third in line for the throne is irrelevant, because the minute Harry gets blown up the guy who's now fourth in line moves up to third in line. "The third in line is dead! Long live the third in line!""

If he dies, I wonder if they will still feel the same way.

Probably, yes.

I agree with this. Especially this bit:
And the whole point of an aristocracy is that they go off on adventures whacking the heads off of evildoers, or getting their own heads whacked off. Er, chopped off.
If today's young Royals spent less time falling all over Sloane Rangers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloane_Ranger) in nightclubs and more time decimating the population of Persia I think we'd all have a jolly bit more respect for them.

PS I'm 82 and still have all my own teeth.

I very much doubt he'll be placed in a danger zone (wherever that might be), much less asked to engage in combat.
It's good PR for the royals though.

You're aging fast redarmy11, a few weeks ago you were 67. Next week you'll be 100!

If they're willing to whack the Princess (conspiracy theory, I know), they're willing to whack Harry. Best thing that could happen for the Crown right now is to lose a son to the war.

Will queeny and phil go visit him? at the very least chalky should, oh yes,
TB will be out of a job soon, maybe he should go and show the beggars
a bit of British steel, may be Maggi will go and cheer them on, you know
like the top guys leading a battle in olden times, for sure if they had to lead
a war at the front, war would be abolished.