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To: Bluchers Elephant
I take personal offense to that statement...

That is your choice so help yourself to it if that is what you choose.

... as I support women both being in the military and, provided the policy of gender norming physical assesments is rescinded for combat roles, women in combat roles.

Sort of like, "Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?"

Your statement asserts that I wish to weaken my nation and its military.

Whether you wish it or not, that is the outcome.

In short you have called me a traitor. Would you like to repeat that assertion, or would you like to use less sweeping statements next time?

No, I am content with my observation. If you choose to be upset there is little I can do about that.

46 posted on 06/04/2005 10:12:29 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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To: Mind-numbed Robot
Sort of like, "Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?"

So now we through the baby out with the bathwater? Women in the military always come with quotas which lead to reduced standards on physical fitness for equivalent roles? That wouldn't be because we have denied women a part in our armed forces for as long as possible and allowed the loony left to push it in their own uniquely misguided way perhaps?

Of cause, since they championed the idea, it must be a cunning plot to weaken the military and bring the US to its knees. I think Patton said it best "You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him". It is worse than stupidity to let paranoia defeat you. In a time of war, to retreat behind comfortable assumptions is a dereliction of duty.

But you would turn down, in these thin recruiting times, a group of willing, able and courageous potential recruits? Especially when a better military mind then you or I concluded "Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior" (Von Clausewitz). You are either a fool willing to weaken his country to satisfy his personal prejudices or a traitor, not just willing, but desiring to weaken the military. (I would not, in the normal course of thought, conclude that a seeming fool is possibly a traitor, but you have opened my eyes so that I too may now see traitors plotting everywhere)

One last quote seems apt here, as a wakeup to anyone who cannot adapt to a changing nature of war and the forces involved "There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change; it is, To use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wounds, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time"

50 posted on 06/05/2005 8:01:22 AM PDT by Bluchers Elephant
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