[LuisBasco]

Very good response, Arne.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: a nation that allows their women on the front lines isn't worth defending!

I too am glad that PFC Lynch is alive and will recuperate; however, her place wasn't in a combat zone.

[ArneFufkin]

The dirty little secret, Luis, is that a man wouldn't have been alive and even if he was, that noble Iraqi wouldn't have accepted the threat to the lives of he and his family , walking many open miles to give away the location and status of a MALE American POW.

It was in a manly service to the well-being of an abused young woman that this brave and honorable man accepted his risks. An American male would have been too dangerous to risk the life of HIS WIFE and children to save. There's no doubt about that calculation. Again, the woman is always THE golden gem to preserve.

That speaks volumes of what men will risk to protect and nurture women. That's not good in a firefight.

[Lael]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: a nation that allows their women on the front lines isn't worth defending!

WRONG!!!

In the Afghan Campaign, one of the Pilots of a SPECTRE A-130 Bad A** Gunship was a FEMALE!

General Dostum of The Northern Alliance picked up his Cell 'Phone (primative as dirt Afghanistan, yet it has cellphones!) and called his 'enemy' counterpart and said, in effect, that "BUSH has so little respect for you Taliban that he sends WOMEN to shoot you from the sky".

It is said that was a Psyops thing in its own category!!