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"
Why is this an either/or choice? Being both seems a natural. I guess A is just a minor form of B.
I can see I am over matched in this discussion so I bow to your superior intelligence. You spell and choose words well, too. So now we through the baby out with the bathwater? Wouldn't you prefer "threw"? Of cause, since they championed the idea... How about "Of course"?
"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"
Had I known you were talking about jilted women and ex-wives I would have agreed. They can be killers.
We'll turn down any recruits who cannot make it using the male height, weight and physical fitness standards. How's that sound?