[falcon99]

“but maybe that doesn’t bother you” Until that crap, I thought we could have an adult conversation, but obviously you can’t. But to your point — there are a lot of combat jobs (MOS is army) that women can do as well as men. Special forces (Rangers, Seals etc) no. But pilots, tanks, and many others, yes — and some better than others. But again you miss the point, being required to register for the draft does not mean they will be drafted and even if drafted, they will be in a combat “MOS”. That said, don’t waste my time responding, after your crap above, you aren’t worth my time any more.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Falcon99, I agree that there are many MOS(s) that women can do just as good as men. However, what is the compelling reason that we as a nation would consider forcing women into the Military that do not want to go? Additionally, opening up combat arms positions, and then forcing women into the draft should give everyone pause. Once again, the Israelis have the data...

The first lesson is that men could be taught to kill strangers, but they would not stop caring for women. That is as it should be: civilized countries want to create soldiers, not savages. During the 1948 War of Liberation Israeli men would abandon their missions to come to the aid of women in distress, thereby endangering their missions, their units and themselves.

Lesson Two: The Israeli public was deeply distressed by maimed, disfigured and dead women soldiers. Israelis were horrified at the thought of their women in enemy captivity. In 1979, in testimony before the Military Personnel Subcommittee of the House Committee on Armed Services, Brigadier General Andrew J. Gatsis recalled that Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan had told him that during the War of Liberation "we had a constant fear of what the Arabs would do if they captured them [the women]," and that the men could not stand the psychological stress” of watching women being killed or captured. He recalled that Dayan felt that women in combat units "knocked down their effectiveness."

Lesson Three: Women really are the weaker sex. It takes twice as many women to lift heavy equipment. That's twice as many targets for the enemy, twice as many mouths to feed, twice as many women to transport. It takes women longer to accomplish physically challenging tasks such as digging a foxhole or a gun emplacement. Therefore, large numbers of women in combat would be a logistical nightmare.

Lesson Four: When the Muslim opposition discovered that they were fighting women, the Arabs spontaneously chose to fight to the death. The very thought of being defeated by a band of women was so shameful to them that it made them implacable. They would not surrender to women. Every encounter became bitter and protracted. For a small country surrounded by millions of hostile neighbors, these drawn-out struggles were a formula for national ruin.