Posted on 02/11/2016 11:09:14 AM PST by xzins
You're absolutely right, but there seem to be a fair number of people who are okay with that as long as women aren't subject to the draft.
All combat positions being opened to women is an Obama Admin mandate that passed almost without a whimper from most conservatives. There wasn't an outcry until the issue of draft registration popped up.
It seems the feminists would be for this. “Equality” and all.
“This ‘draft women’ thing is a tactic by the Democrats to try and force more females into voting for Democrats”
Nope.. not unless Duncan Hunter switched parties.
I agree with Hunter that a full discussion should’ve been conducted on opening up combat specialties to women, and if legislation like this is what’s needed to force that discussion, then all the better.
That is the only way they can draw attention to the underlying insanity of putting women in ground combat units.
...Which is exactly why I like "put up or shut up" legislation like that.
In the first place Mike, ‘15-year-olds’ DON’T get drafted. Secondly, there is no requirement that the ladies would have to be in combat; for every combat soldier there are 10 REMF’s. There are plenty of bedpans to be emptied, floors to be swabbed and paper to be pushed. Thirdly, it is simply a question of fairness; if men have to put their behinds on the line in defense of our nation, ‘the ladies’, should be required to as well. It is so funny to hear people who all our lives have been saying they are just as good as men, that they can do anything men can do, suddenly clam up completely when it comes time to put up or shut up. Well, it’s time.
We’ve got too many whose views are based on their disdain for the feminist movement.
As if my daughters should pay because Germaine Greer hacked them off.
As far as I can tell, every other GOP candidate has been either silent on the issue, or (like Jeb, Christie, and Rubio) is perfectly fine with it.
Cruz is clearly against registering women, but I can't tell where he is on the women in combat units issue.
See #27.
Also, EVERY service member is a fighter and is fighter trained.
When your forces are overrun, there isn’t an ‘off-season’ where you get to have a new draft and field a new team next year.
The people at the computers are given weapons and they go plug holes in the line.
I had to register 35 years ago and prove it periodically to keep my job.
I am opposed to women in combat roles and quite a few other military positions. They do very well in intel, though.
If women are allowed in combat MOSs then all women of military age should have to register for the draft. Let everyone have skin in the game until women are barred from combat by statute.
Women-in-combat (and gays-in-the-military) is part of a leftist scheme to weaken the US armed forces in order to undermine the role of the military in our foreign policy.
/rant
If women are allowed to serve in all military positions, how can one possibly argue against also registering them for the draft? It’s insanity of course, but it’s insanity brought on by the feminists who pushed for women in combat. How in the world can it be OK to draft a man against his will but allow women to pick and choose what they want to do? That’s not equality.
No, because the issue is winning wars and women are not as effective as proven by countless studies.
It is not equal to tell the fat kid or the kid with diabetes that he doesn’t qualify, but the idea is to WIN.
No, it doesn’t. It has always been, and should always be, the primary responsibility of men to protect women and children from attack.
I suppose most Americans know, if they think about it, that you don’t get a ‘do-over’ on a lost war.
Cruz wasn’t asked the question but denounced it the next day before Jeb and Rubio had polling on it:
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/07/cruz-women-draft-nuts/
” How in the world can it be OK to draft a man against his will but allow women to pick and choose what they want to do”
See my posts # 13 and 19.
JEB stepped in the ‘ooompah’ again!
Remember the young German girl whose plea went viral about the muslims raping and abusing German women: She said, “
Men of Germany, these people are killing your children, they are killing your women. We need your protection. We are so scared”
http://www.podblanc.guru/16-year-old-german-girls-plea-for-help-against-muslims-blocked-censored-by-facebook-jan-20-2016_a8bf65b3f.html
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