Investors Business Daily – The Obama administration putting women into combat shows that radical feminism has come a long way, baby. Come the next major war will our daughters be drafted into an emasculated service?
‘Your mother wears combat boots” used to be a joke. We may soon see how funny American mothers think it is when their daughters are being raped in POW camps.
Signs of the decline of civilization are all around us, but sending the fairer sex to the front lines with bayonets and grenades is especially ominous.
The Pentagon on Thursday officially lifted the ban on women in the U.S. military serving in combat, to be phased in over three years, as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta argued that females have already experienced the “reality of combat” in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
It may seem like a stretch to warn that drafting teenage girls is upon us, but consider what happened after President Carter, in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Iranian hostage crisis, called for mandatory Selective Service registration for all young men.
As former Investor’s Business Daily Washington bureau chief Brian Mitchell pointed out in his 1999 book “Women in the Military: Flirting With Disaster,” the legislation Carter sent to Congress the next week “included young women on an equal basis with young men” in Selective Service, because according to Carter “there is no distinction possible … that would allow me to exclude women from an obligation to register.”
Fortunately, Congress — under Democratic control, no less — swiftly squashed the idea of forcing women to register for a potential wartime draft.
On cue, the ACLU and the radical National Organization for Women sued and in 1981, by a frighteningly slim 6-3 majority, the Supreme Court ruled against them, affirming that a men-only draft is not unconstitutional. But when President Obama gets a couple more high court appointments how long will that precedent survive?
James Webb, the highly decorated Vietnam Marine vet who just retired as Democratic senator representing Virginia, penned a famous Washingtonian article in 1979 entitled “Women Can’t Fight.”
The article has haunted Webb and probably stopped any chance he had of being Obama’s 2008 running mate. In it, he argued that “no benefit to anyone can come from women serving in combat” and that “their presence at institutions dedicated to the preparation of men for combat command is poisoning that preparation,” in particular Webb’s alma mater, the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Webb dared to say that “men fight better. We can try to intellectualize that reality away, and layer it with debates on role conditioning versus natural traits, but it manifests itself in so many ways that it becomes foolish to deny it.”
Webb also noted that “men fight better without women around.”
Women in combat would hurt America in another big way, not addressed by Webb but which suits radical feminists and other leftists just fine.
It is this: Women infantry could mean this country would hesitate to go to war when we must.
Redneck's Revenge
How it should be.
Why you chauvinist bastard.
……. Dont you realize women can do some things better then men.?
Look at the cultures where women have no voice. Unless Communist they do all the frikkin work and the men are callous bastards and molest everything with legs. Women still represent the virtue of society and when they do not we are more fuckter. The Constitution can’t make gender decisions why keep fucking with it on that level. These are social norms and perimeters based on family values.. Women always step up to the plate where ever they can help in a crisis. Seems wrong as hell putting them in combat other than a last resort.
Someone call Dean Kamen and tell him he’s going to have to start making his artificial limbs smaller. It was hard enough for a decent-sized guy, making a slender artificial arm with all the engineering inside it is going to be a trick.
http://www.ted.com/talks/dean_kamen_previews_a_new_prosthetic_arm.html
That artificial arm was amazing.
Concerning Obama and all his BS. The Republicans plan on having the presidency next time I bet they are actually loving all the precedents Obama is setting. Blaming the Dems for everything is political art. I didn’t vote last election neither will in the in next. My conscience won’t let me. You all voted and still got the Marxist. Next time you’ll get the RINO. Even when you think you won something it doesn’t get done or is not funded. The Republicans lie, they will help raise the debt ceiling and taxes. It’s a no brainier to save what we have that can’t be fixed.
“He has obstructed the administration of Justice … he has made Judges dependent on his will alone … He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws … He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass out people and to eat out their substance … imposed taxes upon us without our consent… [He has] fundamentally altered the forms of our government.”
So what’s the difference between Barack Obama and George III?
Nothing.
T8 Hate it remembering the real threats are the people behind this nimrod. I don’t think he knows shit he just looks and sounds good and has at least 12% of the population in his pocket. I heard John Kerry ward off Rand Paul on the Mideast issues. That man can think on his feet and is admirably articulate. Made me think of Clinton. Why does the left have the better politicians? Or do they?
This is interesting from No Party. Maybe everyone already understood this. I didn’t.