Are we going to make them register for the Draft?

[4est_4est_Gump]

Now that the Pentagon is lifting its ban on women in combat, does this mean that women could potentially be drafted, too?

And as a practical matter: When women turn 18, will they now need to register, as men do, so that they can be conscripted in the event of a World War III, or any military emergency where the US government decides it needs troops quickly?

It’s a thorny question, raising what may be a difficult prospect societally. But the legal implications are obvious, analysts argue.

http://news.yahoo.com/women-combat-register-draft-225900518.html

We have apparently arrived at the Golden Age, free from strife and the threat of foreign enemies. Little else can explain so gratuitous a decision as to place women in combat units. The downsides to such a policy are legion and obvious; the only reason to pursue it is to placate feminism’s insatiable and narcissistic drive for absolute official equality between the sexes.

Any claim that our fighting forces are not reaching their maximum potential because females are not included is absurd. The number of women who are the equal to reasonably well-developed men in upper-body strength and who have the same stamina and endurance is vanishingly small. Because the number of women who will meet the military’s already debased physical-fitness standard will not satisfy the feminists’ demand for representation, the fitness standard will inevitably be lowered across the board or for women alone, as we have seen in civilian uniformed forces.

Feminists routinely deny Eros — except when it suits them to exploit their sexual power. Only someone deliberately blind to human reality could maintain that putting men and women in close quarters 24 hours a day will not produce a proliferation of sex, thus introducing all the irrational passions (and resulting favoritism) of physical attraction into an organization that should be exclusively devoted to the mission of combat preparedness. Reported “sexual assaults” will skyrocket, and of course it will only be the men who are at fault. Any consensual behavior leading up to the “assault” — getting in bed with your fellow grunt drunk and taking off your clothes, for example — will be ignored, since in the realm of sexual responsibility, women remain perpetual victims, at the mercy of all-powerful men. Expect a windfall to the gender-sensitivity-training industry, which will be called in both before and after the entry of women into combat units to eradicate endemic male sexism.

...

I am not aware of any comparable crusade to create gender-integrated football teams. At least America knows what’s really important.

Heather Mac Donald, NRO



If they want equality either men get to stop registering, or the women need to go into the draft to, unless, of course, equality is not the real goal...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

There is a drought in here. My feets are cold.


Of course, it might be because it's cold as balls outside . . . and sneauxing again.


Stimulus traffic is likely to suck gopher gonads.

I'm looking for a good sneaux driver over here.​

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I have an early start, which means an early off...


It might even be warm enough to grill steak.


Maybe a draft beer to go with it...

 

[mercury14]

http://news.yahoo.com/women-combat-register-draft-225900518.html


Heather Mac Donald, NRO



If they want equality either men get to stop registering, or the women need to go into the draft to, unless, of course, equality is not the real goal...

What an ignorant fucking article. Men and women are already in close quarters in the military and they already fuck. Having women in combat roles will not change that.

Having women in combat roles also doesn't really change the question as to whether they should be drafted.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

 

[SeaDaddy1]

I have an early start, which means an early off...


It might even be warm enough to grill steak.


Maybe a draft beer to go with it...

And that beer was so young. It had a full party of it.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Yeah, starting early is going to be necessary. I need to duck the dummy drivers. I have too much to do to get off early this week. The schedule has been compressed for the Big Push to Berli . . . I mean, Completion.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

They wore grey, you wore blue...

We drank Champaign, sie tranken Bier...



Those were the days. Do I hear Glenn Miller?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Poor Glenn, how we miss him so.


Well, I'd love to stay around and thumb through the DSM-4 and write scripts for Prozac, but craftsmanship awaits.


There will be no bodies hanging from the rafters, but there may be a few Potted Cats (as opposed to Potted Posters).

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Whoa! Men, we've been issued new weapons...

 

[LadyVer]

They wore grey, you wore blue...

We drank Champaign, sie tranken Bier...

Those were the days. Do I hear Glenn Miller?

.My dad won.a bottle of Champaign from Glen Miller one New Years's eve somewhere stateside during WWII. I don't recall where. BTW, nice pink gun pic.

 

[SeaDaddy1]

Yes. We should.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Robert E. Lee had female soldiers, and ignored them. Lee usually ignored fights he didnt think he could win.

The female warrior thing will pass once enough black gals come home in body bags. Liberals are senseless when it comes to learning from prescription.

plato told

him:he couldn’t
believe it(jesus

told him;he
wouldn’t believe
it)lao

tsze
certainly told
him,and general
(yes

mam)
sherman;
and even
(believe it
or

not)you
told him:i told
him;we told him
(he didn’t believe it,no

sir)it took
a nipponized bit of
the old sixth

avenue
el;in the top of his head:to tell

him
e.e.cummings 1944

 

[Busybody]

women should register

as men are required to



a long time ago, when PERG was only 98% crazy, we had a discussion of women firefighters......I axed him, if he had 2 broken legs, was trapped on the 4th floor, in a burning building, would he want 4 men coming for him or 4 women...........he danced and danced and danced and pretending 4 women coming could not ever happen............we KNOW WHY HE DANCED


would we REALLY want women in direct combat roles, KNOWING that they CANT do what men can do in extreme conditions...........ONLY CAUSE NATURE MADE EM THAT WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Busybody]

BTW, CURRY

STFU, no one will respond to you, but the NIGGERZ and fellow crazies

 

[RobDownSouth]

Having women in combat roles also doesn't really change the question as to whether they should be drafted.

The NRO Said It.
The Chief Believes it.
That Settles It.

 

[Ishmael]

The reason for this change in policy is rooted in the words of Patty Murray (any one remember her?) from back in the '80's.

All of the top Pentagon jobs are held by men, men that came up through the combat arms and most of which saw combat as junior officers. The operative word is 'combat'. Murray, rightly so, observed that women will never hold top Pentagon jobs unless they are baptized under fire and actually lead troops/airmen/sailors in combat.

This is NOT about the needs of the nation or any improvement in war fighting ability, this is a jobs program. Nothing more, nothing less.

Ishmael

 

[mercury14]

The reason for this change in policy is rooted in the words of Patty Murray (any one remember her?) from back in the '80's.

All of the top Pentagon jobs are held by men, men that came up through the combat arms and most of which saw combat as junior officers. The operative word is 'combat'. Murray, rightly so, observed that women will never hold top Pentagon jobs unless they are baptized under fire and actually lead troops/airmen/sailors in combat.

This is NOT about the needs of the nation or any improvement in war fighting ability, this is a jobs program. Nothing more, nothing less.

Ishmael

So women wanting combat roles is just a plot to get top Pentagon jobs? Even though the vast majority are enlisted who aren't on track for even low-level Pentagon jobs?

 

[BotanyBoy]

So women wanting combat roles is just a plot to get top Pentagon jobs? Even though the vast majority are enlisted who aren't on track for even low-level Pentagon jobs?

No it's to allow women equal access to those top pentagon jobs, b/c if they don't do it as young LT's and SGT's they will never have a chance at getting said top jobs.

It's a fair access to the big bawss's chair program...

 

[Lancecastor]

The reason for this change in policy is rooted in the words of Patty Murray (any one remember her?) from back in the '80's.

All of the top Pentagon jobs are held by men, men that came up through the combat arms and most of which saw combat as junior officers. The operative word is 'combat'. Murray, rightly so, observed that women will never hold top Pentagon jobs unless they are baptized under fire and actually lead troops/airmen/sailors in combat.

This is NOT about the needs of the nation or any improvement in war fighting ability, this is a jobs program. Nothing more, nothing less.

Ishmael

I'm not sure it's essential to have been in battle to command battle troops.

Sure, it's the norm...but there are lots of successful leaders in business and sport who came from other industries or never played.

Leadership is leadership.

 

[BotanyBoy]

I'm not sure it's essential to have been in battle to command battle troops.

Sure, it's the norm...but there are lots of successful leaders in business and sport who came from other industries or never played.

Leadership is leadership.

Yes but the military promotes from within...they don't contract out Colonels. When faced with choosing a leader with experience and a leader without the right choice is obvious esp when so many lives are on the line.

If women want leadership roles in the military they are going to have to get in there and do military shit....like dredging through swamps and waiting in a hole for 3 days just to kill a mother fucker.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Yes but the military promotes from within...they don't contract out Colonels. When faced with choosing a leader with experience and a leader without the right choice is obvious esp when so many lives are on the line.

If women want leadership roles in the military they are going to have to get in there and do military shit....like dredging through swamps and waiting in a hole for 3 days just to kill a mother fucker.

Of the 800,000 people on active duty in the Army and Marines, how many of them actually do that? And of those that actually do that, how often is it for real and not just role playing?

Let's be honest here - even though we've been 'at war' (someone who stormed the beach in Normandy may disagree with the characterization) for a decade, and have probably rotated 5 million people through the 'war zones', how many were actually in combat? When you take the total number of troops and divide by the number of combat deaths over the past 10 years, some cities in the US have a higher death rate.

Much ado about nothing.

 

[Lancecastor]

Yes but the military promotes from within...they don't contract out Colonels.

Not yet.

 

[hogjack]

Generals do not want to see potential sexual assault victims killed in combat.

It's a waste of good poontang.

 

[mercury14]

Yes but the military promotes from within...they don't contract out Colonels. When faced with choosing a leader with experience and a leader without the right choice is obvious esp when so many lives are on the line.

If women want leadership roles in the military they are going to have to get in there and do military shit....like dredging through swamps and waiting in a hole for 3 days just to kill a mother fucker.

That might be someone's motive for the change but how is Ish so sure there aren't more than one motive or reason for the change?