Look, the Jessica Lynch thing failed because even though they tried to hold her up as a hero(heroine), they had to drop her like a hot potato when she testified that she had been raped multiple times by the religion of peace soldiers. They knew that that wouldn’t fly.
So, they need some horribly, critically wounded (better yet . . . killed) female, preferably a he/she that they can build a legend around.
This great! Now my grandson has had his chances of being drafted in the next war cut in half. They are going to add the female population over 18 to the draft boards list, RIGHT?
And of course its about the women, after all thats what is important here.
Any ideas?
Robert Heinlein - 1973
Notebooks of Lazarus Long
from
“TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE”
“All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplus age, excrescence, adornment, luxury or folly which can—and must—be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a perfect society on any foundation other than women and children first! is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly—and no doubt will keep on trying.”
And I thought combat was all about engaging and defeating the enemy. Although this Congresswoman served in the military and was twice deployed, did she ever serve in actual combat. I respect her service but her credentials to speak to performance in combat is as believable as John, I served in Viet Nam, Kerry.