More Women on the Frontlines
February 9, 2012
PENTAGON officials announced today – with a perfectly straight face, as if they were talking about serious military affairs instead of an immense public folly – that 14,000 combat-related positions will be formally opened to women this summer, pending approval by Congress. According to the LA Times, women will “serve in non-infantry battalion jobs, such as radio operators, intelligence analysts, medics, radar operators and tank mechanics. They could be placed together with combat forces, such as supply convoys in areas of fighting.”
The move, which makes a less formal arrangement to that effect official, was not greeted warmly by representatives of female advocacy groups. But then have these martinets ever greeted anything or anyone warmly? Imagine the burden of trying to accomplish what no country serious about defending itself has ever accomplished. No wonder they are grim. They said the Pentagon should open all combat positions to women. As is typical, they did not offer a single substantial reason why women in combat would help the military better fulfill its mission. Sure, women in the military have helped soldiers frisk women in burqas but that is no reason to open tens of thousands positions to them.
No one wants a soldier for a mother. That’s something they also never mention. Nor do they mention how the very appearance of a female soldier, however capable she may be, is one of the most depressing and demoralizing sights in the world, tangible evidence if there ever was any that the spirit of feminine nurture has been trashed.
Reader Henry McCulloch writes:
While I was already quite sure readiness is not the reason for this change, ABC’s Luis Martinez makes explicit what this is really all about in his closing sentences (emphasis added):
A year ago, the Military Leadership Diversity Commission recommended that the military lift the ban on women serving in combat units.
The advisory panel of current and retired military officers said that keeping women from serving in combat units was an obstacle to promotions and career advancement.
A look at the list of commissioners reveals exactly the line-up one would expect in our diversity-addled age – and that they’re not all current and retired officers. Rather than being selected for their demonstrated excellence at fighting our wars, the commissioners are a carefully assembled collection of racial/ethnic/sexual special pleaders – black, Hispanic, women (many of them affirmative-action two-fers), with no doubt a few pliable white liberals tossed in to lend some semblance of impartiality.
If this is how we choose our warriors, America will rue the day our increasingly frivolous armed forces have to fight an enemy able to challenge them on anything resembling equal terms. As it is, I don’t think the armed forces of the day are setting any records for effectiveness against the unlettered tribesmen they do fight.
No doubt, from his post-Army revolving-door sinecure with Colt Defense LLC, George Casey Jr. is smiling at this affirmation of the strength of our diversity, not only in what used to be our Army, but in what used to be our country. And, from his perch in the stockade, I wonder what Nidal Malik Hasan thinks of it all. He’s probably smiling too…
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Alan Writes:
Here is another sight that is not only depressing and demoralizing but one of the silliest things I have ever seen – a picture of ten women on an ICBM launch crew at Malmstrom Air Force Base. (It was posted yesterday at View From The Right.)
I do not want to see multi-culti feminoids given the responsibility of defending my nation from attack – that is, when they take time out from making cutesy-poo smiles to make nice for pretty picture. I want to see stern, no-nonsense men doing that job. I want to see men who do not conform to any code of political correctness or any multi-culti quotas – men who wear an expression that says: “We will kill you if you threaten the security of this nation.”
Can’t you just imagine our nation’s most calculating enemies looking at pictures of such feminoids and laughing at the suicidal foolishness of the American military today?
Buck writes:
