The issues on women in combat go far deeper than any idea of disrespect for tom boy antics among young women. The issue has never been one of courage among young women; nor of patriotism. Rather, it goes to the validity of the whole Chivalric code, as a mainstay of Western values--family & community values;--and of the validity of traditional sex roles, as basic to human happiness. (See Women Hostage To Contrived Delusion.)
Undermining the understanding that young men should consider it a duty to protect women & children, has all sorts of long term detriments for both sexes--as does undermining the corresponding traditional duties of virtuous women. These values should not be abandoned as some sort of out of date fad. They go to the very core of an ongoing, and sustainable, social order.
William Flax
Wow, just when I was beginning to warm up to you, you go and jump off a cliff. If you don't see the danger there, then you should be over in the Ron Paul threads.
Unless of course you are just doing your job.
Too late. That ship sailed years ago. "Women in combat" is a natural consequence, not a cause, of the deterioration of the traditional virtues.