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To: neverdem

I don’t know Edward Norton. So he’s a reservist. I think maybe he should go and read the history of Israeli women in combat. I guess they train and carry weapons to make them look good or something. As for Americans having a little understanding of combat does not even deserve a rebuttal to that idiotic statement.


34 posted on 12/07/2012 6:08:47 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: SkyDancer
Debunking the Israeli 'women in combat' myth

“Few serious armies use women in combat roles. Israel, which drafts most of its young women and uses them in all kinds of military work, has learned from experience to take them out of combat zones. Tests show that few women have the upper-body strength required for combat tasks. Keeping combat forces all male would not be discriminatory, as were earlier racial segregation schemes in the military, because men and women are different both physically and psychologically,” said the Feb. 5, 1990, National Review.
If they see combat, it's by accident. They're in support units, not the combat arms: infantry, armor and artillery.
38 posted on 12/07/2012 6:29:30 PM PST by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: SkyDancer
if it would make ya feel better honey..

Lets blame it on the MEN!....

MEN haven't evolved enough as a species to not discern what sex the person in the foxhole with him is...

Does that make ya feel better???

45 posted on 12/07/2012 7:35:08 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: SkyDancer
I don’t know Edward Norton. So he’s a reservist. I think maybe he should go and read the history of Israeli women in combat.

Okay, if you didn't respect the Norton quote, maybe you'd like the Luddy quote about Israel's experience in the 1948 war with men and women serving in mixed units.

It was bad news, is a fair reading.

52 posted on 12/07/2012 11:28:51 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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