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"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.

After such a blistering diatribe what can I say?

"war is dangerous so we want to remove women from danger, so we'll keep them out of the military"

There are many dangerous things in this world of ours, for instance driving a car is dangerous, but where is the outrage over allowing women to drive especially with children in the car?

Where is the outrage over the limp and broken bodies of young mothers cut out of their vehicles in while their children cry out for their mommy strapped into the child protection seats?

Flying dangerous, again where is the outrage over burnt and torn bodies of women pulled from the wreckage of airplane crashes, surely by denying women the right to fly their deathes can be avoided?

and what about marriage, where women are routinely beaten and murdered by those that promised to love cherish and keep them safe? should we also abolish marriage because it is unsafe?

Need I go on, because I can. The truth about women in the military is realtively simple, it is no more dangerous the getting into a car, or flying or even getting married. But the precieved risks are greater, because we all look at war as dangerous. We don't look at driving flying or marriage as even more dangerous then war, but they are.

It's time for a reality check, women that join the military know the risks they are taking and do so willingly, they know they are choosing in some small way to defend this country, and that perhaps they will have to defend this country by laying down their lives. As of yet none have demanded to be placed on the front lines and directly in harms way, but if it were availible only a few would, and if it were those that would want to serve in combat know the risks and would prepare for them.

In fact they'd be much better prepared meet the dangers of war then those women firing up their mommymobiles and heading off into traffic oblivous to the dangers of our highways and byways.

I suppose we could prevent their deaths by putting women in their place, you know, one ankle chained to the bed and the other chained to the stove, babies at their breast, barefoot and pregnant,

but then again they are at risk from common everyday house fires
and those chains are so heavy...