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To: GOP_Party_Animal

Come on - remember racially segregated units?

The problem is the transition to an attitude of "us" vs. "the enemy" from one of "US men," "US women" and "the enemy." It will come.

I do agree that women should meet the same physical strength and other requirements that are required of the men.

Those nurses at the battlefield hospitals have always been in danger - they should have been trained and armed earlier than they were.


38 posted on 02/27/2006 8:05:20 AM PST by hocndoc (http://www.lifeethics.org/www.lifeethics.org/index.html)
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To: hocndoc
Come on - remember racially segregated units?

That's the old standard argument when defending the "women in combat" notion. It is also specious. Are only the top 5% of black men comparable in strength to the bottom 5% of white men? No? Then there is no basis to keep them from combat; they do not degrade the overall effectiveness and unit-cohesion of fighting units. Emotional relationships between men and women are also ignored by this poor argument.

47 posted on 02/27/2006 9:09:32 AM PST by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: hocndoc
Come on - remember racially segregated units?

This is an apples-oranges comparison. The physiological differences between men of different races are negligible, and relevant-to-combat differences nonexistent. The differences between men and women, however, are considerable; moreover those differences have relevance in combat situations. The current system acknowleges those differences in differing physical fitness standards for men and women.

I do agree that women should meet the same physical strength and other requirements that are required of the men.

This is a contradition with your apples-oranges comparison. If in fact women were held to the same standard, far fewer women would qualify, because there's at least one standard deviation of difference -- which is why there are different standards.

72 posted on 02/27/2006 11:32:39 AM PST by HolgerDansk ("Oh Bother", said Pooh, as he worked the bolt.)
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