Women Vs The Front Line! Fight!

[dv8nation]

http://news.yahoo.com/ap-sources-panetta-opens-combat-roles-women-203034238--politics.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senior defense officials say Pentagon chief Leon Panetta is removing the military's ban on women serving in combat,

Comments

[hardblue]

I wonder if this could be one of those issues that goes back and forth between Democrat and Republican administrations, that Republicans will reverse it and Democrats re-instate it and so on, but that would add a lot of uncertainty in military planning.

[underlankers]

If Israeli women can do it I don't see why Americans cannot.

[dv8nation]

Other countries doing something without problem has never been a barrier to people think America will be ruined if we do it too.

[fizzyland]

Because we're exceptional... ly bad at doing anything other than shoveling truckloads of money into the pockets of the already-rich.

[dv8nation]

Don't be silly. We can whip the shit out of third world countries like no one else.

[notmrgarrison]

I expect Fox News to jump on the old line about how being on the front lines will make it more likely female troops will be raped by enemies.

Do you somehow think that's not true?

[dv8nation]

No, but women getting raped by guys on the other side is hardly new.

[mikeyxw]

Women in the military getting raped by guys on the same side isn't as rare as it should be either.

[dv8nation]

True, but that's not where the objections are going to come for.

[rimpala]

Somehow I expect political pundits and armchair pundits to expect these women to die for their own petty agendas.

[telemann]

That war hero Rush Limbaugh will share his pearls of wisdom, no doubt.

[devil_ad_vocate]

As long as Limbaugh wears a larger flag lapel pin than the rest of us, we should never doubt his courage and patriotism. What he endured during Vietnam is more than most... countless tubes of PreparationH.

Jesus wept.

[rimpala]

I like to stay out of most social issue arguments anymore because of the tendency of the Rushes in the world to hijack it.

[usekh]

As long as they don't lower the standards I am all for this. If a woman meets the same physical and psychological standards as a man why shouldn't they serve?

[harry_beast]

They will have different, not lower standards.

[sandwichwarrior]

That's a joke right?

[yes_justice]

Are all men the same?