[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Women on the front lines = a PC bad idea. Period. Let's correct this madness now.

[Reagan79]

Absolutely agree. I don't know how we can have a policy that we know will result in females being raped, all in the name of political correctness. It is an automatic occurence when they are captured in a conflict in this region.

[GeronL]

I agree

[Allan]

Women on the front lines = a PC bad idea.

A slight understatement.
Only a degenerate, barbaric society sends women into a battlefield.
Civilized societies protect their women.

[irgbar-man]

Yup. Taking nothing away from her, I hope that's the lesson civilization can take from Pvt. Lynch's ordeal.

[jnarcus]

Even the Irsaeli army is now openly admitting that women in combet is a BAD idea....when will folks learn?

[billybudd]

Well, they could have done the same to a male soldier. It was simply an act of violence.

[bvw]

The armies with a *few* women on the front lines, as I see it, are usually the winners. Russia in WW II, Israel in its wars, are what comes to mind. Follows the rule that the most cowardly force that must win, wins.

[JudgemAll]

the lesson is that women in combat cannot afford to surrender... sheesh...

[wardaddy]

Amen...and enuff already.

[Sci Fi Guy]

Women on the front lines = a PC bad idea. Period. Let's correct this madness now.

You are being too kind to the PC crowd. Remember they expect every Male soldier to be "sensitive" enought to be shocked and offended by the slightest off-color remark. And at the same time be so hard-hearted that if they are captured, the rape of a female pow would not crack them.

Imagine the average PC Male Soldier, a soldier so sensitive that he would never say a dirty joke, because it might hurt a female's feelings. Imagine that (or a real) male soldier faced with the choice of giving the enemy vital information, or watching a female soldier being violently raped. Imagine a soldier in a cell with 2 female pows, and being told after the first one is raped (in front of them), that they will come back in the morning for the other woman. Do you think that the soldier wouldn't talk, after spending the night in a cell with raped pow, and one who knows exactly what will happen if he does not talk?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Women on the front lines = a PC bad idea. Period. Let's correct this madness now.

I'd agree, but in this case I thought she was a supply clerk, at the back of the lines, and she and her team got lost and wound up in the path of a wandering band of Saddam loyalists.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I dunno. Knowing some of the (damnable) ways of many of those rabid towelhead fundamentalists, jehadis and Ba'athists, they just as soon would have -----y raped an unconscious male US soldier, too.