[DuncanWaring]

The biggest issue is the destruction of our society when we stoop so low as to send our wives, mothers & sisters into combat before we start running out of men.

70 years ago nearly 10% of the population of this country (mostly men) was in uniform. We were "scraping the bottom of the barrel", accepting men with bad eyes, bad ears, bad feet, and other conditions that were disqualifying a couple of years earlier.

Even in those conditions, we didn't send women to fight.

Any society that sends its women to fight before it sends the non-shaving boys and the cane-borne old men deserves to be destroyed.

[MSF BU]

The difference being that the Cuomo and Romney boys don’t want to serve, nor do the Sununu kids. Where did Rand Paul serve? Cruz? Ryan? One thing that can be said for McCain/Palin, is that they both brought up young MEN who were not afraid to go into front line units. None of this JAG nonsense so popular now with the Pataki/George P. Bush/Biden/Laxalt.