Posted on 11/05/2021 4:57:02 PM PDT by markomalley
China hawk Sen. Josh Hawley normally has little in common with anti-war group Code Pink. But the two are on the same side when it comes to keeping women out of the draft.
Congress is expected to debate this year whether women should register with the selective service, when it considers the fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act. The fight is uniting advocates on opposite extremes of the political spectrum, even if their reasons for supporting or opposing the change are different.
“It’s a weird pairing,” said Kara Vuic, an expert on women in the military who teaches at Texas Christian University. “They’re united because they don’t want women going to war, whether that’s because they don’t want anybody going to war or because they think women should be in the home….It is bringing together people both for and against who probably agree with each other on absolutely nothing else.”
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Women should be in the home to help men heal from war.
Oh...this gonna be good...getting popcorn
We don’t need Code Pink. Let the women fight the wossi-rats on their own. We’re not virtue signalers. My attitude is this: You want equal rights you got em’ bi-ch!
My daughters have been raised to be healthy women. We should not have to offer up their blood to “show those feminists”.
Women want equality. Serving in the draft is equality.
I couldn’t agree more. It’s either equality all the way or not at all.
But sons’ blood can be shed with abandon?
Not arguing in favor of drafting them but more so against them being in combat units and in command of men in such units.
Even legal and illegal alien men are required to register for the draft.
The draft ended in the early 1970s, we've been paying people to maintain antiquated mechanisms for spinning up the draft ever since with nothing to show for it. Zip, zilch, nada, nothing, for nearly fifty years. Guaranteed a draft wouldn't even work if there was a sudden need for it (without a huge influx of spending to basically rewrite all of the database software). Entire careers for hundreds, maybe even thousands of government servants and national guardsmen were spent in this fantasy land where this was a program that shouldn't be shut down.
Yes, it's a comparatively miniscule sliver of the defense budget, but if you can't shut something like this worthless program down, there's no chance anything even close to being more significant than this will ever get shut down.
If an 18 year old male puts on a dress and says that he identifies as a woman, does that make him exempt from registering for the draft?
I agree with you completely. How many civil Servants have spent an entire 30 year career and now a pension processing entirely worthless draft notices and filings.
There’s nothing wrong with drafting women into support specialties, while the males contend with the combat mission. Sooner or later, we’re going to fight a peer adversary, e.g., China, and it’s going to require an all-in effort. Women in this country wanted this “opportunity.”
It might lead a person to believe that the list doesnt really have anything to do with a draft.
Naw… bring ‘em in. Like I said, they can go into support specialties, but we’re in that “women can do it all” era… let them prove it.
It should be mentioned that women contributed greatly to the WW2 effort. "Rosie the Riveter" comes to mind. Bottom line is that women are vital to any major war effort. They should be drafted as well as the men and be slotted to the roles where they can best contribute.
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