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Sorry if I'm bringing up something that others have brought up, but I haven't read the whole thread.

In regard to women in combat, the people arguing for women in combat seem to be forgetting 2 important factors:

1) Men don't menstruate and have periods.

2) Men don't get pregnant.

Can you imagine having to march through a desert while a female member of the unit is having her period? Or how about serving aboard a naval ship and having it eave the war zone and head for the nearest friendly port because a female crewmember is pregnant?

Now multiply that by the THOUSANDS. Those are the kinds of problems you'd be seeing on a REGULAR BASIS if women were allowed into combat. Let's say the women can meet all the requirements that a man can in basic training. You STILL have an unreliable soldier! One who can't spend prolonged periods of time in the field as they can't fight certain days of the month. And if that soldier DOES is in the field at that special time of the month, she might risk infection. And if that soldier gets pregnant then chances are she won't be ready to fight for a good YEAR! Maybe more. (Pregnancy, plus a couple months after giving birth for her to get back in shape.) Oh yeah. Women in combat are SUCH a great idea.

And don't bother making the argument that women in combat wouldn't have sex. I remember a story back from the Gulf War about a ship that set out to the Gulf for the war. It had, if I recall correctly, 34 women crew members. By the time the Gulf War ended, 32 of them were pregnant! 32! And for all we know, the other 2 were getting it on, too. Just were smart enough not to get pregnant. (Of course, if you're using Clintons' definition, they weren't REALLY having sex.) So what's a SHIP OF WAR supposed to do when its got female crew members who're pregnant? Does it stay in the war and risk the women giving birth aboard the ship? Or maybe getting injured and losing the child? Does it leave the warzone just for the health of ONE crewmember? They could chopper her out, maybe. At least that wouldn't be as huge a waste of military resources. (That's assuming, of course, that a friendly port is within range of the chopper.) Or do they have the woman give birth aboard the ship? What next, daycare facilities for all the mothers aboard our warships?

Women have absolutely NO business being in combat. And no, this doesn't mean I agree with the Talibans' treatment of women. The military is a wholely unique situation. And I haven't even gone into the morale problems that injecting sex into the military causes.