Posted on 05/17/2004 3:21:47 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Now that we've skipped over ''a chicken in every pot'' to ''an orgasm in every bed,'' maybe it's time to rethink this business of women in combat.
That smirking soldier-girl of ours, Pfc. Lynndie England, in all those Abu Ghraib ''prisoner abuse'' photos, well, that's another story--partly. The first part is that we've had enough of that wall-to-wall coverage of how BAD we are, when in fact 99.9 percent of our military is heroic, honorable, and decent. Also, we didn't bring this war to them, they brought it to us, and when it comes to abuse, brother, we're the amateurs at their profession.
But the second part is why I called this meeting to order. In my innocence, I always believed that men go off to war for the safety of their women back home. Sure, it's all for Duty, God, and Country, but it's still about protecting Mom, Sis, and Sally Next Door. There's also a pretty standard belief that guys should always be heroic and never be cowardly, and that there is no such thing as a cowardly woman.
Childbirth, by the way, is something no man could possibly endure. Raising a family is beyond the courage of most men.
Women are heroic for just being women. It's different with men. We've got to constantly prove ourselves. So, off we go into the wild blue yonder. That's one means to authenticate our worth. But what the hell are American women doing on, or near, the front lines? Things go wrong when you mix women with men-at-war. Sex happens.
Pfc. England, who's been reassigned from Abu Ghraib, is pregnant. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
If it's too politically incorrect to say that women belong in the kitchen, okay, girls, run a corporation, make yourselves doctors and lawyers, but stay out of our foxholes. That's why God Created Men. If you're out there with us in the same jeep, what have we got to protect? Who's taking care of the kids? What are we fighting for if there's nobody home?
Women do belong in the military, just as men belong in the kitchen…far away! Women excel in behind the front-lines valor, and that's where they belong.
Still at this moment, even after those books and movies, the ''heroism'' of Pfc. Jessica Lynch comes with an asterisk. Actually, when Lynch was returned to us, my first sigh was of relief, my second sigh was: What the hell was she doing there? Same goes for Pfc. England at that Iraqi prison camp. What the hell was she doing there?
Back in 1994, Bill Clinton decided that ''A Few Good Women'' weren't enough, so, heeding the feminist agenda, he flung open the doors of boot camp to what used to be called the fairer sex and issued executive orders allowing women to ''engage in all but direct battlefield combat.'' That's vague enough to put women in harm's way. Lynch was part of a supply unit when she was captured--and abused.
Let's not even try to imagine the abuse Lynch endured, or the tortures reserved for women who fall into the hands of our savage enemy.
Already one of those Iraqi mullahs has issued some kind of a fatwa, a demand that his followers seek out our girl soldiers for use as ''sex slaves.''
Women in battle fatigues--was this the deal when God Created Woman?
Apparently no fan of Clinton's ''gender quotas,'' or of a more ''sensitive'' military, is this particular woman, Elaine Donnelly, of the Committee for Military Readiness, a private organization that examines personnel issues in the armed forces. She says: ''Young mothers are being sent off--is this really the way we ought to be running our military?''
Who can argue with that cry of dismay, unless you're someone who believes that men and women are exactly the same, except that women have longer hair?
Most women who enlist never think it'll lead to war. Army Specialist Shoshana Jackson, another captive, wanted to be a cook, just as Lynch probably thought she'd be pushing papers in some safe preserve. Most women sign up for desk careers and seldom imagine themselves dodging bullets. It's only their feminist sisters, and leftist enablers, who insist that girls become G.I. Janes for the sake of ''gender equality.''
It's a terrible switch in our conditioning to imagine girls otherwise, as being trained to spit, cuss, burp, and shoulder a rifle with a company of grunts, as is being promoted by the feminist dogma that seeks to neuter the military and everybody else. Cyndi Lauper had it right: ''Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.'' I think that's how most guys think of girls, as the better side, the sweeter side, of our lives.
They are ours to love, honor, cherish, and protect, not the other way round.
If I do keep referring to women as girls, well excuse me, but that's how it was when girls were sweethearts. Novelist Irwin Shaw gave us the gift of a beautiful short story: ''The Girls in Their Summer Dresses.'' That wouldn't work as ''women'' in their summer dresses, and, how about that for a phrase that's worth a thousand pictures? Yes, girls!
Let's get it straight. War is hell. That's no place for a girl.
Here's the link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1042711/posts
The team leader is 1LT Angela Santana. If I had my way she'd have been on the front page of a bunch of newpapers.
If you check out the link I gave you, be sure you notice comment #102 at the bottom.
"I find this article, patronizing, paternalistic, sexist, mindboggling.......and I agree with it 100 percent."
I have a sister in the military...and so do I.
Are you kidding? Disagreement is why the country is so great, respectful disagreement, or loyal opposition, is a point lost on our current generation of politicians.
Again, you can have the best of both worlds, just don't mix them. I could make an outstanding argument that the general level of the average recruit is perhaps as low as its ever been, both physically and academically.
The reason why we are without parallel militarily can be attributed almost completely to our complete domination of space. We are the only force in the world with a fully integrated C4 infrastructure. One Aegis class cruiser can coordinate an entire carrier battlegroup in either an attack on another battlegroup, or a defense of the battle group - all of that is based on satellite, encrypted GPS, etc.
One forward observer with a radio can call down air firepower on just about anything nowadays.
I'm not saying that we are fielding a bunch of morons out there, because clearly that isn't the case, but the difference in your average corporal physically and academically isn't better to the extent necessary to claim that our corporals are clearly superior, for example, than Germany's or Swedens.
OK. Now I understand. She was a key to identifing the source. She obviously did a great job. Kudos to her!
At first I thought you meant she led the Special Ops team working with the 4ID...my mistake.
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