[hellinahandcart]

Can anyone name a fourth woman who belongs here?

Lani, dear, surely you've been alive long enough to remember that Ceaucescu b!tch in Romania?

Or does the fact that she was a communist (like you) whiten the blood on her hands?

[martin gibson]

Christ, what an asshole...

A rat is a dog is a pig is a feminist (...with profound apologies to rats, dogs and pigs).

[finnman69]

If you have a penis, perhaps you should be required to take a course in aggression and compassion. And perhaps women need to take courses on co-dependence.

Actually I would suggest Wife School and some cooking courses.

'Wife School' from the 'Man Show'

[finnman69]

I am personally in a state of despair. I've been a political activist for 34 years, and it all seems to mean nothing these days. We have these nitwits in charge of our country and we are going off (again) to kill more people. We haven't learned anything.

I bet she has no problem killing babies though. Not that someone like her likely has to worry about getting impregnated.

[Alouette]

(Everyone gets so excited that they can name three women who fall into this war-mongering category. Can anyone name a fourth woman who belongs here?)

Queen Elizabeth I of England
Joan of Arc
Deborah the Prophetess
Bodeaica Queen of Ireland (not sure about the spelling)
Empress Maria Theresa of Austria

Lots more here

[Jonah Hex]

Why do men like war so much?

Because slavery doesn't appeal to us as an alternative.

I'm sorry, but this mush-for-brains mindset really bothers me. I keep thinking back to a scene in Heinlein's Starship Troopers where one student makes the statement "My mom says war never solves anything." The former-M.I. classroom teacher asks "Why don't you ask the people of Hiroshima, Dresden, or Carthage if war never solves anything. You can't, can you. Know why? Because they're dead." (a rough paraphrase)

War's ugly, but it sometimes beats the hell out of the alternative.

[A Navy Vet]

OMG, I have never read so much claptrap in all my life. How can anyone get so much wrong on so many levels? I'm saving this for future reference to liberal intelligensia.

[stuartcr]

You should ask why governments like war so much. Out of those that have really been there, few like it.

[RoughDobermann]

Our system teaches males to be competitive and aggressive.

Ummm, Lani? Have you ever been around a male infant/toddler? They are have an innate propensity for aggression and competition. Don't like that? Well, take it up with Mother Nature!

[Destructor]

"I feel bad for most men. Their communications skills are so low, they cannot seem to handle discussing things."

"Our system teaches males to be competitive and aggressive. Boys who don't like football are called sissies. Hierarchical qualities are instilled in all of us, but in men in particular. These feelings serve to keep us separate, rather than interconnected. Separateness fosters violence and brutality."

In essence: Men are stupid brutes, and the Patriarchial Society channels their aggression and stupidity into violence. The only way that men can be saved is if they are feminized.

Interesting theory- NOT!

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

Why is it that left wing birds are always complaining?

[Paul Atreides]

Why do women love murdering the unborn so much? (Thankfully, not all women)

[jjm2111]

Dear Editors:

What a horrible article. Ms. Silver has raped the memory of the men who have given their lives for this country so she could spew her feminist vitriol in freedom. Ms. Silver must have never met an actual combat veteran; a man who spends months in the mud with no amentities; a man who spends weeks in a lifeboat after losing his ship; or a man who must jump from a burning plane. Ms. Silver must have never watched her best friend hold in his own intestines, or have three quarters of his skin burned away, or be tortured to death in some nameless POW camp. Ms. Silver must have never felt the fear of having to charge enemy fire.

Perhaps the author should make use of her oral history expertise and and speak with some real combat veterans in her area. Her notion that military men are all little boys with erections running around with their phallic guns might be dispelled. To characterize combat veterans in such a way is disgusting and abhorrent. It is one thing to disagree with a war and the leaders who perpetrate it. It is another matter entirely to characterize the men who pay for that war with their own blood as homo-erotic loons.

Shame on you for printing such garbage. Your newspaper denigrates the men who fought and died for this country.

Without respect,

My Real Name
LT, USNR

[Jim Noble]

>>Why do men like war so much?<<

Because victory makes women open their legs.

[goodnesswins]

"Men need to see themselves as humans."

They do, you idiot. That's why they go to WAR...to beat the living &#&$^(&% out of those who would kill THEM. (And, to protect the weak, like YOU.)

[Bonaparte]

"I know, you want to yell out Indira Gandhi! Margaret Thatcher! Golda Meir! (Everyone gets so excited that they can name three women who fall into this war-mongering category. Can anyone name a fourth woman who belongs here?)"

This woman's ignorance surpasses belief. If asked (please don't), I could name a hundred women rulers who enthusiastically went to war. Elizabeth I comes to mind. Then there was Cleopatra, who went to war against her own brother's army, then went to war against Octavian as an ally of Antony. And who can forget Catherine the Great? Apparently, Lani Silver can, assuming she ever even heard of this war-mongering empress.

How about Artemisia, who allied her forces with Xerxes at Salamis simply because she detested the other side, not because she had to embroil herself in this conflict (see Herodotus). Zenobia, the "warrior queen" of the 3rd century AD had a lust for war that is well documented. In the 6th century AD, we have the exceptionally brutal and pugnacious Visigoth queen, Brunhilde, who started a war that dragged on for 40 years. There are soooo many more, and every last century is represented right up to the 20th C. The 16th and 17th centuries are simply littered with warring female rulers!

Now, why am I not surprised that the editors of the SF Examiner have no knowledge of history at all?

[SeenTheLight]

A friend's letter to the editor...

In her article,"Why do men like war so much", Lani Silver declares herself "personally in a state of despair", and she certainly should be, after her ridiculous screed about those dreadful men who are ruining the world and need to be sent to re-education camps immediately. Her supercilious, insulting stereotyping of men is truly disturbing and personally put me in a state of disgust. Silver displays an astonishing arrogance that can only come from a zealot. What's going on in her "womens' studies" class I wonder?

Incidentally, we're both female warmongers!

[RightJustified]

I know, you want to yell out Indira Gandhi! Margaret Thatcher! Golda Meir! (Everyone gets so excited that they can name three women who fall into this war-mongering category. Can anyone name a fourth woman who belongs here?)

Former Attorney "General" Janet Reno's expedition into Waco comes to mind.

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

Liberal woman will never realise the truism that a woman is a woman when a mans a man. On DU^H you can find some harpy bemoaning the fact that all the men she has met are shallow, yet refusing to think something might be wrong with herself.

[PatrioticAmerican]

Why? Because is pisses off liberal women.