“James Webb, the highly decorated Vietnam Marine vet who just retired as Democratic senator representing Virginia, penned a famous Washingtonian article in 1979 entitled “Women Can’t Fight.”
The article has haunted Webb and probably stopped any chance he had of being Obama’s 2008 running mate. In it, he argued that “no benefit to anyone can come from women serving in combat” and that “their presence at institutions dedicated to the preparation of men for combat command is poisoning that preparation,” in particular Webb’s alma mater, the Naval Academy at Annapolis.”
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Webb was a disaster, IMO, as a Senator from VA but I liked his book and his time in the Reagan Administration in DOD. Since the article was written in 1979, he had not figured out the NewSpeak way to ensure continued political viability but he certainly spoke the unvarnished truth.