I'm not judging the woman in question. She just did what our culture told her to do.
The real question is, how come the feminists insist that women should have an equal right to be in combat, and then turn around and condemn the war effort? Isn't this what they wanted: the right to be a single mom, the right to fight in the military?
Which raises the question, why would they want women to have the right to commit atrocities alongside men, which is the way leftists think of any just war we fight?
"The real question is, how come the feminists insist that women should have an equal right to be in combat, and then turn around and condemn the war effort? Isn't this what they wanted: the right to be a single mom, the right to fight in the military?"
The Left doesn't want to fight any war for any reason. I swear, if space aliens came to earth with the intention of eating every human being available, the Left would side with them rather than fight them.
Good questions.
There are whole industries eager to expand their market share: diversity consultants and lawyers who will find a reason to sue even if it contradicts the arguments they made in their victorious lawsuit just a few years before.
I know the communists were particularly eager to undermine the American military, so it wouldn't surprise me if there were radicals who wanted to use traditional morality against itself: make the Army a bastion of radical social policy, and honorable people won't be willing to serve in it, and we'll end war and live in a workers' paradise of peace and harmony, riding ponies and waving rainbow flags...
I doubt active subversion is as much an issue right now. But of course, radicals do believe that if they make it in the military, they've made irreversible gains. The military is consistently more admired than any other profession in the country.
It's the Gramscian long march through the institutions. If they capture the military, they'll advance their agenda plenty. They'll cynically use the military as human shields to advance their goals, and uncritical people who retain that just respect for the military will end up defending radical policies before they know it.
When people cite the military of Stalinist Russia to justify women in combat, something is very, very wrong.