Posted on 01/25/2013 4:49:30 AM PST by suspects
President Obama, in dogged pursuit of his liberal Nirvana, is free to lift the ban on women serving in combat positions.
He is, alas, unable to repeal the laws of nature, physics or gravity.
Ask a combat veteran you know how he would have felt knowing that, after being wounded in combat, the only person around to pick him up and carry him to safety was a 5-foot-3, 120-pound woman.
Ask any active duty serviceman how hed feel knowing that, as he lay on the ground bleeding, the only thing between him and a cave-hardened Tali-ban killer was a 20-year-old woman from the wilds of Wellesley.
Dont ask these men how they feel about women in positions of power, or about working side-by-side with the opposite sex. Every American male under the age of 50 grew up in a world with women in power: From the principals in our schools to the cops on our streets and the managers at our offices. The notion that America is a sexist nation, or that as Obama repeatedly asserts business owners have the desire or ability to pay women less for the same work, is a liberal fiction.
The stupidity and wrong-headedness of the Obama administrations women in combat decision has nothing to do with the proper social position of women and everything to do with indisputable, biological fact.
Facts reported by professor Kingsley Browne of Wayne State University, author of the book Co-ed Combat:
Inclusion of women in (combat) roles results in a segment of the force that is physically weaker, more prone to injury (both physical and psychological), less...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Heard something bizarre yesterday on local radio I would like comments on. A caller made a comment about Gay soldiers having a time out card that they can pull anytime training exercises get too hard. The pulling of the card requires that the soldier is given time out to rest. I hope this guy was full of you know what, but in today’s world who knows.
Heard something bizarre yesterday on local radio I would like comments on. A caller made a comment about Gay soldiers having a time out card that they can pull anytime training exercises get too hard. The pulling of the card requires that the soldier is given time out to rest. I hope this guy was full of you know what, but in today’s world who knows.
Has anyone asked women if they really, really want to go into combat? Who, man or woman, in their right mind really “want” to be involved in the nastiness of combat? Insanity reigns supreme.
This has been going on for 40 years or more and there are plenty of women in combat and who have died.
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