Posted on 05/30/2002 4:03:09 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
May 30, 2002--There’s an old song, from the ‘40s I think it was, called “Little Things Mean A Lot.”
It was a love song but that’s also the way it is with national administrations. We all tend to look at the big picture and the headline stories when we judge presidents and congresses and governors but often it’s the little things that tell you where their hearts and heads are.
This administration is no exception.
We concentrate on terrorism and the middle east and the possibility of war between India and Pakistan and on domestic issues such as farm subsidies, education bills and social security. Meanwhile some important things slip by virtually unnoticed even though they may tell a lot about where this president stands, what he believes and how determined he is to push for them.
A couple of things come to mind.
Over at the Pentagon the army is removing women soldiers from ground reconnaissance units that will be part of fast-deploying combat brigades.
This reverses a Clinton administration policy that let women be assigned to special units that are trained to perform some of the ground sweeps such as those now being conducted in Afghanistan.
This is the second step the Bush administration has taken to reverse Clinton polices regarding the role of women in combat and the accompanying feminization of the armed forces.
Earlier the Pentagon to all intents and purposes emasculated DACOWITS, the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services and threw out all of Clinton’s appointees. The committee as Clintonized was pushing for women in combat and in general appeared to favor a co-educational armed services even though it inevitably wash was leading to weakening of physical standards for combat troops. The new DACOWITS will deal with readiness issues but not with women in combat.
It would appear that President Bush and Defense Secy. Rumsfeld have figured out that the purpose of the armed forces is to fight wars and not indulge in social experimentation.
What a pleasant change.
I once saw an episode of Cops in which TWO female officers could not subdue and unruly woman. Add to that, they had to contend with an unruly man. And they think women could take on terrorists in physical combat? It only happens on Xena.
About darn time!
We need a separate website (or a professional press) to catalogue the messes and landmines Clinton left for the new administration. Here's a doozy about a leftist "shadow government" the mainstream press is ignoring (keep e-mailing them....they know we know (^:):
Clinton Undead Haunting Pentagon (entrenched bureaucrats, Clinton holdovers obstruct Bush).
At a recent UN's Women's conference, workshops on lesbian rights, fair wage rights, abuse, etc., were everywhere. One Christian pro-family group from the US..the lone pro-family group...drew a large crowd of hostile women...until the speakers began to talk about the history of the family, the strength and responsiblity of women through the ages, non-victim truths about the damage of the current single-parent families and no-fault divorces to women today. Truth is more powerful than the most persuasive rhetoric....when truth is allowed and encouraged in the public square.
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