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Soldier Girl Blues

j349 Wrote: Jan 30, 2013 12:18 AM

Our Federal Government's logic on women apparently cuts both ways. In athletics, women have different capabilities than men, but they have equal rights; so Title 9 says that colleges must provide women their own athletic facilities, sports, teams, leagues, equipment, etc. In the military, women supposedly have the same capabilities as men, so they have the right to fight right up there on the front lines with the strongest, toughest Marines and Infantrymen. Well, which is it? Are women's abilities the same, or different? The Fed's logic says BOTH; that's because it's the most USELESS, COSTLY, POLITICAL, IRRATIONAL answer to the question.

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Soldier Girl Blues

What if, during the presidential campaign, Mitt Romney had accused President Obama of wanting to let servicewomen serve in combat? After all, Obama had hinted as much in 2008. What would Obama's response have been?

My hunch is that he would have accused Romney of practicing the "politics of division" or some such and denied it.

In any case, wouldn't an open debate have been better than putting women into combat by fiat? You'd think the folks who are always clamoring for a "national conversation" on this, that and the other thing would prefer to make a sweeping change after, you...

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