You will note that the people making these DUMBASS DECISIONS DO NOT HAVE TO SUFFER DAY-TODAY CONSEQUENCES!
Recall when the decision was made to put women in USN ships, the people who made those decisions and enforced those rules did not have to pay the consequences of their decisions, either.
National Defense, sailors and taxpayers paid the price for their dumbass decision, while the Poobahs skated, just like they will this time too!
And, don’t get me started about “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and homosexuals in the military!
5 years after women join the Rangers/SEALS/Delta/frontline combat units, etc, you will hear talking heads in and out of the military who will say things like:
NEWS ANCHOR/POLITICIAN/MILITARY COMMANDER: “When we integrated women and homosexuals into these units, people were saying it was going to be a disaster, that it would hurt mission capability, morale and such. We are more capable now than we have ever been, and have the moral buttress of diversity and equality. Remember how they said the same thing about the military when blacks were going to be integrated back in 1946? Same result here...the world didn’t end, and it won’t. It was the right thing to do, and we can all be proud of the diversity we now see.”
And you know what? There will be no dissenting opinion.
The next time this comes up is when we go head to head with an opponent who is going to make our elite units use every single ounce of capability to complete a mission, and it isn’t going to happen. We may find ourselves in a situation where we don’t control the air or the sea. Our avenues of supply have been cut off, and our units have to do with their brains and brawn and endurance to win. And we are going to lose, and lose badly.
We will lose badly, because our opponents won’t be stupid enough to do what we have done to our military. Damn, this makes me angry.