As usual, you are 100% correct ! Women do NOT belong in the military. It doesn't matter if they can do something or other, or not. Men feel protective of women and that's a distraction, when one is fighting a war. Women get preggers and don't tell me that they don't, whilst in combat. Though most peoples are sport of civilized, those, whom we are and shall probably have to fight, are NOT civilized at all.
Historically, from the beginning of time, men have raped and pillaged, during and after wartime. Those women/girls/boys, weren't fighting against them; they were " the spoils of war ". For those, who think that " times have changed ", remember that Saddam had a RAPE SQUAD , who raped the wives and daughters of those he wanted to get something out of / torture. Why would he and his associates NOT rape our female military ? After all, it worked well with the Iraqis.
I find it incredibly grating to hear these youngbloods on this forum spouting this nonsense.
I woke this morning to my wife crying over the images of that poor girl who had been captured by these murderous fanatics.
It is so wrong of an idea that it I feel it as strongly as anything I've ever had a strong opinion about.(and I've had a few..lol) I know scores of over 35 vets and none agree with this new "what if" social engineering. It is absolute idiocy designed for only one thing...to appease the feminists and keep Pat Shroeder from having a crying fit...again. The military is no place for social experiments....
Those who like to equivocate this with negro rights are disingenuous.
History is on our side. Of course to these new age genuises, histroy is all wrong and misguided. They'll now come and remind me of fearless female political warmongering leaders which is true or the more canny Katie di Medici types but those women were not in the front lines. They were sovereigns...a big difference and another issue altogether.
Women pregnant while serving? Hell, it's an epidemic onboard ships. They just busted a salior gal prostitution ring on a carrier and some less than honourable marines were pimping them out. Do we need this crap in our military? It's one of the most ridiculous notions ever to float down the pike.
Saddam ...dead or alive...is about to lie...er speak...
The notion this thread revolves around is lunacy.
It's disheartening to see what passes for conservative these days isn't it?
We may have over 100k members now but we have lost our edge with these newbie social liberals who think because they support the war and lower taxes then they are conservative.
What do we call them? We've about run out of labels..lol...and none of them fit well anyhow.