Posted on 02/08/2016 2:12:12 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
After last week's surprise statements by two top generals that women should sign up for the draft just like men, Sen. Ted Cruz has set himself apart from his Republican rivals in the race for president by saying unequivocally that the idea is "nuts."
When questioned at a Senate committee hearing last week, the Commandant of the Marine Corps. Gen. Robert Neller and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley both said they thought women should have to register for Selective Service when they turn eighteen, just like men.
During Saturday's presidential candidate debate in Manchester, N.H., everyone on stage who spoke seemed to be in favor of it.
"I have to admit, as I was sitting there listening to that conversation, my reaction was, 'Are you guys nuts?'" Cruz said of his rivals at a town hall style gathering in New Hampshire the next day. At a later campaign event he addressed the issue again, saying:...
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Not all men ask for combat duty either, but all men are required to register for the draft.
When the women who didn’t ask for the other “advances” they’ve gained choose to renounce the benefits of those “advances”, then they’ll have a case to exempt themselves from the obligations of this one. But if they enjoy all the benefits of equality then they should take on all the responsibilities of it.
It is only nuts to draft women if it’s also nuts to assign women to combat.
In Israel don’t women serve a mandatory service along with men or am I mistaken?
As a former Infantryman, I vehemently oppose women in combat roles. Not enough upper body strength and odor issues in long term forward of friendly deployments. (Sorry ladies.)
I think everyone should serve.
Let women be drafted for support roles.
Nope, don’t agree. Who knows better about fitness for combat than the men who fight the wars? it sure isn’t the committees on Capital Hill playing war with soldier’s lives from the comfort of their overstuffed leather chairs!
Exactly, but don’t expect it to stay that way under a Trump presidency.
Personally, I don’t want them being drafted in any way shape or form. I want them at home raising the children while daddy goes off to war if necessary.
Somebody define ‘female’ please? I’m not sure what that is any more.
LOL...I don’t blame you. Females live in your neighborhood, not in your television screen.
Hunter had endorsed Huckabee. As of 3 days ago, he hadn’t decided if he’ll endorse someone else now.
Israel’s geographic size makes a huge difference. Draftees are rarely more than a bus ride away from home.
Actual combat units have little more than token female presence. Of course, in Israel almost anywhere can be a front line, so there is logic in females having some exposure to military training. It’s pragmatic.
In the USA, it’s 100% an attempt to impose cultural change.
In the 1980s, that idea was anathema to conservatives.
Have them make diner? :|
That’s just not true. We know where Cruz stands explicitly on almost every issue. Marriage, abortion, supreme court judges, tax reform, ISIS, Obamacare, etc.
They will slow down ISIS whether they fight or not.
Does he even use *first person* in those examples?
Cruz kicks every single thing back to Capital Hill, for a debate, or a vote that never happens, or is stalled, in order that the Cheap Labor Express wins the day, but without his finger prints.
Wake up.
The crime is that “equal protection” has been turned into the de facto ERA amendment. Why did the left ever want an ERA amendment if everything they needed was already in the Constitution? Phyllis Schafly said the ERA would mean women being drafted and same-sex marriage would be made legal. Now the court has made “equal protection” mean the same thing as the ERA. Which opens up everything Schafly warned would happen if the ERA was passed.
It sounds like you really don’t think women are equal.
No conservative supports the idea now. Just RINOs or Trump cultists.
They do, but not combat duty.
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