Turning women into cannon fodder

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | April 11, 2003 | Robert Knight

[alisasny]

Perhaps this is a good thread to continue the conversation of women in front lines....

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[patriciaruth]

What was she doing there in the first place?

She was a supply clerk.

POW's found today include Army Spc. Edgar Hernandez, Army Spc. Joseph Hudson, Army Spc. Shoshana Johnson, Army Pfc. Patrick Miller, Army Sgt. James Riley, Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Ronald D. Young Jr., Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 David S. Williams

Five of them were from the 507th Maintenance also. Two were Apache helicopter pilots. They were all defending our right to b*tch about their being there.

[John H K]

Ironically this clown skirts close to the liberal argument that fathers don't matter.

We're supposed to believe that someone's mother being killed is worse than their father being killed.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Thanks to Bill Clinton who repealed the Risk Rule that would have kept her out of danger.

[fire_eye]

This article pretty well nails it... but there's an underlying issue that won't go away. "Society" pays more homage to those who "risk their lives" than it does to those who don't. This attitude - and I'm NOT commenting on whether or not it's justified - is particularly prevalent in the military, where those who serve "behind the lines" are denigrated as "REMF"s, or "Rear-Echelon Mother-[Feinstein]ers".

As long as that is the case, the feminists - and even women in general - are going to have considerable motivation to agitate for being allowed to serve in combat.

[BenLurkin]

"Some men lost their sanity when they saw women being blown apart. These men must have been chauvinist pigs."

This is an odd passage. Seeing anyone blown apart would cause anyone else distress.

Is the author suggesting that there is something less horrifying about seeing men blown apart than women? On the other hand, why would being horrifed by the mangling of your fellow (female) soldier make you a pig?

There is some deep seated contour of the author's sub-conscious that is revealing itself in this piece. Darned if I can guess what it is.

[alisasny]

A single mother of 2 babies has no business being anywhere near a war zone. How it came to be that Pvt. Piestewa was in that position should sicken many of us.

[SouthernFreebird]

Well of course they hurt for both....... but I have to agree it is worse for a child to lose their Mother.

[Tailgunner Joe]

It's called sarcasm. Soldiers understand that terrible things happen in combat. Decent men understand that these burdens should be shouldered by men and not women.

It is natural for chivalrous men to be more offended at the death of a woman, especially when it only serves to further a gender-bending feminist cause and the Democrats desire to weaken our military.

[patriciaruth]

President Bill Clinton did not take the appropriate actions after the 1993 bombing of the WTC to keep 3,000 people out of danger in 2001.

That Americans, in or out of the service, are at risk anywhere now could well be blamed on him, that is true.

[Tahoe3002]

"In the women's barracks, the women were being sexually harassed by the lesbians when they weren't being hit on by the men," she said. "Two of the lesbians got new recruits drunk so they could gang-rape them in the women's barracks."
This was a too frequent case at Parris Island in 1976-1979. Lesbian Drill Instructors and officers constantly preyed on the young female recruits, or those who had just graduated from boot camp. When caught, the homosexual officer/NCO was usually discharged. In some cases, they were reassigned to another post, and they started all over again. (I was on more than one court martial and several investigations in these cases.)

[nightdriver]

It's too bad that Patsy Schroeder can't be put on the front lines too. That ought to make her squint!

Like the song says: "...things change, don't you know, when you're too old to go..."

[BIGZ]

What part of EQUAL is it that we do not understand. Women should play in the PGA & should hit from the mens tees, play in the NBA, there should be no womens sports as such. If women are equal there should be no distinctions. If there are distinctions than women are not equal.

Of the same degree with another, as in magnitude or value: neither greater or less. I am equal except.

[TalBlack]

The creation of a double standard necessary to get women into these slots is all the proof that anyone needs that they don't belong there. The differences between men and woman go well beyond physical size but most americans TODAY are ignorant of them.

But the biggest problem is that everyday officers salute a lie. They ORDER their subordinates to salute the lie. They order their subordinates to MOUTH the lie. The result is that the orginazation can no longer examine itself in its mission and correct any problems which crop up because there is an area of HUGE problems WHICH CANNOT BE MENTIONED OR IMPLIED.

You will notice the degree to which Special Forces are used STRATEGICALLY instead of TACTICALLY. This is being referred to as a new paridigim. Nonesense. It is simply that SP still trains like MEN in the purely MASCULINE atmosphere that 5000 years of military history and tens of thousands of years of human history dictate as NECESSARY to success.

No, today any 98 lb girl (I was last 98 lbs in 5th grade!) can go SLUM as a man if she wants to take such a pause on her way to settleing down and having a few kids. And it doesn't matter to oUR society that they are getting themselves and good men killed so that their egos or ambitions may be satisfied. Take a look at the DEBACLE of the ambush involving Lynch's company. Count the people present (male or female) who could not have been there in the pre feminized era and replace them with the standard soldier. Case closed.

[BenLurkin]

The choice of the disparaging term "Cannon Fodder" is equally puzzling. These troops were in a support unit. That's not the usual meaning of "Cannon Fodder".

These women were doing an adequate job of being "supply clerks". There's nothing indecent, futile or dishonorable in that.

The author reveals he is a cad by implying that their service (and in one case death) were somehow dishonorable for themselves or for our armed forces.

Again, there is something odd in his entire presentation, something hidden and perhaps unspeakable. I just can't put my finger on it.

[Diddley]

How it came to be that Pvt. Piestewa was in that position should sicken many of us

And, how was that?

[Tailgunner Joe]

Sending females supply clerks into the warzone to pander to feminists and Democrats is dishonorable.

This is the Clinton Legacy

[TalBlack]

They WEREN'T defending our right to b!tch about their being there. The weren't DEFENDING ANYTHING! They could not fight to the degree deemed neccessary by combat expierience. Rather, they were there for POLITICAL reasons. They were getting SLAUGHTERED! What a travesty!