[Atlas Sneezed]

I can live with women combatants, as long as they can meet the OLD standards of fitness and strength formerly demanded of every soldier.

Just as I support the right of blacks to learn at all universities, and oppose them getting preferences above their qualifications, I grudgingly support the right of women to pursue the military career, as long as they meet the demands, including all the upper body strength aspects for which many of them are disadvantaged.

[briant]

So if we don't want women in combat we're analagous to racists? LOL

[wardaddy]

That is not a comparable equivocation. The military is not a petrie dish for social engineering.