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Your whole argument is predicated on your assumption of accomplishments. So what did this woman do to attract such adoration?

She got lost. She became a POW.

That, in my opinion, is not enough to make her a hero. I think "hero" is used too fast and loose in our society.

The real question is, why does it bother you so much that I disagree with you?

You think she's a hero--fine. I don't.

My little dissenting voice evidently has some people very upset.

My little dissenting voice evidently has some people very upset.

No. I am actually against women in combat roles. Your dissenting voice on this particular thread doesn't make me upset politically, it makes me ill at the inappropriateness of it. I'm sorry that someone with this level of inappropriate behavior is on my side politically.

Just as the "anti-war" protestors do not realize that throwing up on Federal building steps is more damaging to their cause than helpful to it you don't realize that throwing up on this thread makes all of us who are opposed to women in combat associated with the stench.

I love how you continue to say "she got lost" without even the slightest evidence that it was her fault. She is a private, I seriously doubt she was controling the convoy's direction. According to the story, she got captured because she was too wounded to continue fighting, would you prefer she just shot herself in the head and ended it all. I don't believe our troops should have ever been in Somalia, that doesn't mean I don't acknowledge the bravery of the men who died fighting there. Even if I agreed with your "women should be home with their daddy" attitude, that would not change the fact that Jessica WAS there, her convoy got ambushed, probably due to someone elses mistake, and she fought bravely before being wounded to badly to continue. Compared to the average American sitting on his butt on the couch and complaining about stuff, I would say that makes her a hero, along with all of our soldiers. Also, why do you assume the rescue was just for her? They would have gone in anyway hoping other Americans were alive, and if no one was alive, then to recover their bodies. We leave no one behind, male or female.