Given the number of women in the military right now, if there is an attempt to draft men only, I'm sure that many of the men drafted will take the issue to court. If the government is willing to take women volunteers, how can they refuse to draft women along with men?
And it's not only the question of forcing men into harm's way and not women. What about the fact that all of a nineteen-year-old man's female contemporaries would be getting a head start on him as far as graduating from college and snapping up the entry level jobs? I think those young men would have a good case.
President Bush has been right to offer women more opportunities in the military, and I respect him for it. It's a good reason to support him. Yes, some women have screwed up, just as men have. Yes, there are a lot of problems to be solved, but how much worse to try to turn back the clock just as intelligence, training and technology are becoming more and more important in winning military conflicts.
Wars are still won, and always will be done, by Infantry occupying enemy ground. In 25 yrs of Infantry service I have tet to see more than a handful of females with the combination of strength, stamina, ferocity, and determination to "take that hill' or to "Follow Me!"
This isn't a slap at any women, just the fact that the two genders are different and you can't legislate away what God created.