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To: OldFriend
Webb said that women did not belong in the military academies.

Not exactly. He did raise the question of whether co-ed training was a good idea; that was an ongoing debate at the time in many places that had recently gone co-ed.

Questioning co-education is not same as saying that women should not be in the military at all or that they had no role in the leadership. Even if they had not been able to attend the service academies, there would still have been ways for women to become officers and I saw nothing in the article that objected to them. Webb made clear that he beleived there was a place for women in the military; the words are right there in the article.

Guess he felt their place was in the bedroom being referred to as monkey faces.

Well, that is your interpretation. I do not particularly care for Webb and am well aware of the rumors of his womanizing. However, I think his piece has been grossly misrepresented and that it was a mistake for the Allen campaign to portray him as sexist for his opposition to women in combat.

49 posted on 11/10/2006 6:54:15 AM PST by freespirited (The MSM is the root of all evil.)
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To: freespirited
The passages read from WEbb's book told me more than I ever wanted to know about the man and his dark dark soul.

That a couple of freepers thought that since it was a novel, it was okay was quite enlightening.

54 posted on 11/10/2006 6:58:12 AM PST by OldFriend (Run and Hide, Tax and Spend for the next two years. Everyone happy?)
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