Do we want another Jessica Lynch?

ESR ^ | November 24, 2003 | Kimberley Jane Wilson

[Arpege92]

"At the very best, she got her medals through incompetence."

What incompentence was that? I was lead to believe that the reason they got into the situation that they did was due to a man's mistake.

I mean no disrepct to those who died in that ambush, because accidents happen and people die in war but it's not fair to blame Jessica for being put in that situation and then comdemn her for it.

[Bobibutu]

"I risk my life having children, and my sanity bringing them up. Men risk their lives to keep me safe while I'm doing it. (Thanks, guys!) I think it's fair."

I like your thinking - there are some very capable women out there - if they choose to serve OK! But not in combat. WACS, WAVES, WRENS - did I leave some out and am open from a hit by the PC police? Have been around and functioned just fine in support roles.

Women on ships is stupid. Women MPs I can go for. Where is the pic of that tough BABE MP who took the Iraqui down and boxes with her counterparts - posted a few weeks ago?

[Air Assault]

Signed and Submitted.

[Coleus]

I don't think President Bush has changed any of Clintons left-wing policies in the military.

[ConvictHitlery]

I don't think women belong in combat, with the exception being as pilots.

I am affraid that you did neither pilot a figther jet, not thought through about the consequences of having a woman pilot.

In war, sometimes planes get shot down. Some other times, planes malfunction. In either case, the pilot, if is lucky, parachutes and get captured. Then what? The woman pilot tells her captors that on TV our planes do not crash or get shot down? And if they laugh, does NOW sues them?

And you don't need even a war to see that piloting jets is not for women. Almost everybody - men, women, teenagers - can pilot a plane AS LONG AS EVERYTHING IS NORMAL. As soon as something is out of ordinary, men are wastly better in judging these situations and have a much better chance to reach the correct decision.

If you need more proof that women do not belong in the cockpit, then here it is: Tara Hultgreen

[resistmuch]

We live in a country that thinks women should be warriors, marriage can be an arrangement between people of the same sex, abortion is something like getting rid of a wart, and God knows what else. In my lifetime, I've seen the lunatics take over the asylum.

I can't believe we think our "system" is a model for the world. We try to convince the Islamic world to emulate us, and they recoil with horror at our decadence. Are they wrong?

[HairOfTheDog]

My first born child's birthday was september 11. Her 16th birthday was 2001. My daughter has the transcripts, SAT scores, and ACT scores to go to any college. She chose to serve her country.

Wild horses could not have stopped her from making her choice. She is well aware of the added consequences of being a female warrior. And we are all safer for her decision.

I support her and wish her well.

[HairOfTheDog]

Your post might have made sense if you wrote it ~before~ that last beer.

[Salvey]

...this country needs to have a talk -- an honest, no holds barred, to-heck-with-brain-numbing-political correctness, talk with itself. Do women belong in combat situations or not?

We also must have a similar talk concerning race in this country.

[HairOfTheDog]

oh really.... and what would you like to fix?

[sandlady]

Your post deserves nothing more than the response that it deserves no response.

[Ramius]

Seems to me that some just want her to be a tool for their own agenda. Whatever that might be. From what I've seen of Jessica, she just wants to be left alone. I for one have no problem with that.

[bagman]

No, to paraphase that noted military analyst, Popeye, "Womens in combat is bad luck."

[Lijahsbubbe]

I support her and wish her well.

I second that! God bless her and you! I thank her for her service!

[Polybius]

And you don't need even a war to see that piloting jets is not for women.

Well, they had a pretty good war record in biplanes:

The Night Witches

"We simply couldn't graps that the Soviet airmen that caused us the greatest trouble were in fact WOMEN. These women feared nothing. They came night after night in their very slow biplanes, and for some periods they wouldn't give us any sleep at all." ......... Hauptmann Johannes Steinhoff, Commander, II./JG 52

[Tailgunner Joe]

You're right, We should follow the example of the Communists.

[Polybius]

You're right, We should follow the example of the Communists.

The comment that I responded to was that women weren't capable of flying aircraft in war.

Whether someone could is different than if someone should.

[NMFXSTC]

Sorry, Chief...but Lynch was never a PW...not in a civilian hospital...and remember...no resistance during the "daring", MTV crew military PA corps smashing of doors?

Purple, maybe...POW/BS w V...never!

[gcruse]

I risk my life having children, and my sanity bringing them up. Men risk their lives to keep me safe while I'm doing it. (Thanks, guys!) I think it's fair.

That makes too much sense.  Of course, there are men who risk their sanity in bringing up children, too.  But I can't disagree with you.

[OldEagle]

"...but Lynch was never a PW"

You may very well be right. Do you have a reference on that?