Allowing women into combat situations is an incredibly stupid idea. The first and most obvious reason why this is so is simple: women,
as a group, simply don’t have the physical strength that men possess. Combat (especially combat infantry) is physically demanding, and requires strength and endurance that
many women simply do not have. The military recognizes this fact – the qualifying standards for men and
women for the military are very different. Allowing women into combat
positions dilutes the strength and integrity of the military, needlessly risking the lives of soldiers.
Let’s assume that women will only be allowed to drive
tanks, or fly planes, or whatever. Let’s assume that some semblance of sanity
prevails, and women wouldn’t be allowed into ground combat units, or would have to pass the same standards as men in order to enter those units. (I’m not holding my breath.)
But there are numerous other reasons why allowing women
in combat roles is foolish. There is the problem of facing enemies which
mistreat captured female prisoners. (Imagine how poorly America would have weathered the Vietnam years with female combat soldiers.) There is the problem of women getting pregnant before deployment. (Update: Read my comment for more.)
Is there really an urgent necessity that requires women to be placed into combat situation? Is there really a public outcry for women to join such units? Or is this just another push to assert the absurd myth of the "equality" (translation: sameness) of men and women?
Women can’t do everything men can
do. Men can’t do everything women can do. Men and women are not interchangeable,
despite a society that desperately tries to forget that fact.
The move to put women into combat roles is another assertion of the idiotic notion that men and women are “equal” – or more accurately, that gender doesn't matter. And America's military will suffer because some people want to make this point.
