Posted on 02/12/2016 5:02:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
You've gotta hand it to Ted Cruz. He might be a ruthlessly self-aggrandizing right-wing bomb-thrower who antagonizes everyone around him, but he also clearly has a rare mixture of good fortune and consummate skill at marshaling his insatiable ambition to the festering cultural alienation that pervades the grassroots of the conservative movement.
Over the past week, Cruz's good luck and talent for exploiting culture war grievances have given him the perfect issue to use and abuse as the fight for the Republican nomination heads into the South. I'm talking about the question of whether women should be required to register with the Selective Service so that they (like men) could be conscripted in the unlikely event that the military draft was reinstated.
For the injection of this issue into the Republican race we can thank ABC News' Martha Raddatz, who at last Saturday's GOP debate asked Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush (but not Cruz) where they stood on the issue. Both of them came down on the side of including women, as did Chris Christie, who volunteered his opinion.
Cruz remained silent....
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Seem pretty durn important to some in my circle, especially those that are raising young children. I must of seen the issue in some form or fashion 7 times the last week on Facebook.
Cruz’s “fierce opposition” and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee.
Mr. Obama has already wrecked what was once the finest military in the world. I think it might be a good idea for a wider demographic to serve in the armed forces.
Unlike Don Trump, that life-long, stalwart, rock-ribbed conservative?
I’d go to war to stop it. Do you feel that strongly?
Are you willing to kill or die to enslave my daughters to the state?
Then abolish selective sevice.
You would create a huge “anti-war” movement and fill the military with people who don’t want to be there. The demographic I want in the military is people who want to be there. The whole “anti-war” movement in Vietnam was really an anti-draft movement. Once the draft ended they didn’t care what happened to Vietnam. That’s why it’s usually lefties who want a new draft. They long for the “anti-war” movement of the sixties, so we won’t be able to fight when we need to. And we don’t need it. Volunteers beat conscripts every time.
Another DC insider with more important things for us than the economy.
A lot like another freshman senator who actually became president.
IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!!!
As a former grunt, there is absolutely no reason women can’t be drafted for support roles.
Get over yourself, Ted - You’ve never served and don’t have a fricking clue.
We probably could, but I think it makes sense to keep the infrastructure intact, in the unlikely event we have a declared war that requires a huge number of ground troops. But in that case we would need a lot of support troops too, and women could fill those roles.
Yep. Carrier just announced they are moving a factory to Mexico and letting 1400 people go. Who besides Trump gives a damn?
68-70 was about the last draft.
Support roles: ANYTHING EXCEPT Infantry, Recon, Armor, Field Artillery, Combat Medic, Ranger, SEAL, DELTA. There are other MOSs, but you get my drift.
There is no reason for females to go to jump school or air assault, recon, sniper. SERE school should also be off limits.
Women lack upper body strength, and as I’ve said over and over, they smell badly when deployed forward of friendly lines for extended durations. Easy to track units with females - seriously. Just a biological fact, sorry but the truth isn’t PC.
Clinton started trashing the Army with COED BCT.
The draft produced some of the finest soldiers this country ever had. Things got bad in 70 with druggies, In fact the damn pot smokers even started their crap in our SF camp around Spring 69.
Any MOS that can be deployed in zone at all relies on personnel in that MOS being rotated into hot zones to provide relief between combat tours for the troops coming out. Women in those career fields are not at all supporting the troops in combat more than they are limiting the capacity for the combat branches to relieve them.
Troops in the motor pool can't all get stateside or overseas non combat tours if women fill up most of the billets. That's not okay and it isn't just something petty either.
And the Marine Corps for example doesn't do non deployable career fields.
The split physical standards need to be ended outright.
And if the women are going to be filling the slots then they need to be deployed
. Women in this country support the troops and oppose this nonsense (and the insane rules of engagement that our troops are under) as thoroughly as fish care about bicycles. Even on this forum. How many women participate when we have threads on the insane rules of engagement Obonghit has imposed relative to their ratio of membership here? If they don't give a cr@p then let them have skin in the game. And let it be courtesy of the Democrats.
I play a rougher game than a lot of people here. There has been way too much shielding people from the consequences of their actions and inactions. Let women in America who have to a very large extent proved that they don't care about the men under arms join them by the actions of people for whom they have been the most faithful voting block.
Perhaps then they will finally change their priorities a bit.
I’m not saying that no draftees were good soldiers, but the draft doesn’t work when a sizable percentage of the population opposes the war in the first place. It ends up damaging the military and making an unpopular war more unpopular. And it’s not like people won’t volunteer. Look at how much the military has been downsized, with good soldiers being discharged whether they wanted to serve or not.
I have no way of knowing how good these guys are these days. I do know too many are queers and lesbians. I did meet guys at Campbell in the 5th Group who seem very good. I just disagree with an Admiral running SOCOM. I am no fan of the ROE’s. I hate the MECH infantry riding up and down MSR’s.
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