Posted on 10/18/2001 6:41:57 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
I just want to know if Gen. Tommy R. Franks has been relieved of his command yet. If not, why not?
It contends that the observable differences between boys and girls has been the product of generations of differential upbringing. Developmental psychologists have found that, across cultures, boys and girls are significantly different in what interests them and in how they engage with their environment. The emerging discoveries from Brain Science have found that the male and female brains are organically different, proving that there is a physical basis for the cognitive differences between men and women. Men and women do think differently.
It is a human triumph and is rooted in our evolutionary success story. Our education system should be teaching and celebrating that difference instead of engaging in social engineering, which further alienates boys by seeking to re-construct their natural maleness.It is a truly pernicious experiment which is an attempt to indoctrinate a generation of young men with feminist propaganda and to inflict a collective guilt trip on them.
I'm amazed that all the "reformed liberal" pundits, from this guy to Horowitz and Radosh, more than any other conservatives, bring up the "Spectre of Communism" in every article. Makow has the same lame tactic as Horowitz - he attempts to link these two disparate events with a greater conspiracy-theory strength anti-American movement. He fails to do so in any way. Also, in order to demonize an idea, in this case feminism, he attempts to link it to Communism AND he takes the most extreme elements of that movement for the whole. The article appears both hastily written and poorly thought out.
Here, feminism has undermined heterosexual identity and the nuclear family and torpedoed the birth rate, posing a dire threat to western civilization.
All these things are on their way out not because of feminism. Do you think both parents working is a feminist problem? Could it have anything to do with economic necessity? Because some women have cried wolf all claims to gender bias are false? Because some small group of feminists are man-hating lesbians then the whole of the group feels that way? I certainly couldn't lump all conservatives together - ascribing libertarian tenets to the religious right.
Even more ridiculous is his attempt to connect feminism with the failure to take out Mullah Omar and the killing of Tom Wales. Is it just me, or is there really no connection made at all? It's shotty, and also despicable. Are we privy to the reasons why we failed to take out Omar? Do we yet know who it was that killed Tom Wales and why? Makow clearly looks at every event and sees only how he might connect it to his agenda, whether there is a connection there or not.
The core idea of this programme, i.e. that gender is socially constructed, is a central tenet of the entire feminist belief system.
How very right you are. I know a woman (a “doctor” of “women’s issues,” if you can believe it) and this is one of her dozens of goofy mantras.
She honestly believes that boys should play with dolls, and that their “supposed preference” for “cops and robbers” or “cowboys and indians” is entirely socially-driven.
The good news is she gave birth to a girl, and does not plan on having any more children. When she was pregnant, myself and others who know her, were praying that she would have a girl. Though she’ll undoubtedly screw her daughter’s head up royally, the damage she would have inflicted on a son would have been monumentally worse.
(PS - where in Ireland? My brother-in-law is from Tipperary. I spent four days there and a week in Dingle a few years back. Dingle may be my most favorite city in the world, after NYC. The music and the food were heavenly.)
Unfortunately, it's those few women who abuse power who are making or have made policy.
Why not?
Is the suggestion here that "cover-my-butt girlie man" General Tommy R. Franks is immune to dismissal for incompetence?
He doesn't have a superior?
If neither his superior nor anyone higher up can get rid of this incompetent, then mass firinga appear to me to be in order until a rational warrior is found.
Seymour Hersh reported in the New Yorker that CENTCOM commander Gen. Tommy R. Franks, when told on the day bombing commenced that reconnaissance had picked up Omar's convoy, refused to fire because his "JAG people didn't like it," presumably because collateral damage would have been unacceptable. Later reports confirmed that Omar was in the convoy.
How come this story hasn't received more airplay? I also heard that the CIA also had their chance with him too, but also took legal cover.
During the cold war, you prayed that your commanding officer was the type to act and then ask for forgiveness. That meant that he cared for the men under his command and doing his mission, not some bs legal interpretation from DC of a hot situation thousands of miles away!
I'm waiting for one of the professional GW haters to try and blame this on GW and Rumsfield! This situation has been going on with the JagOffs since the Korean War, and it apparently in the last 8 years under X42 reached the level that you cite in your post! It will take 8 years for GW and Rumsfield to clean of the left wing extremists/Jagoffs and other pink panty wearers in our military!
GW and Rumsfield will not tolerate this behavior when it pops up. However, it will popup as the JagOffs and their pink panty wearing Generals and Admirals are so PC and anti really killing the bad guys! The CIA/FBI have the same problems!
True; they're considered expendible. They are also operated and controlled by the Air Force, not the CIA as indicated in the article.
If Henry did it, he should confess. If he didn't he may as well shut up. He's doing nobody any favors to write as though it's common knowledge that a conservative did this. I think this is proof that too much education causes brain damage to some people.
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