Here’s my problems with her statements:
- She doesn’t believe in the military draft because she doesn’t want to be fighting next to people who don’t want to be there. Well, after a few weeks of full combat hell, I’m sure nobody really wants to be there. The draft – of men, not women – is necessary to spread the responsibility around through society and make citizens take war more seriously along with their citizenship obligations to defend the country. If their sons may be drafted, or they themselves may be drafted, decisions of war and peace taken by their government are paid attention to and their own voting habits become paramount because their own skin is in the game of preserving democracy.
- Her answer on letting women into special operations units is unrealistic. If one out of a hundred women can meet the standards a man can, to me that’s an unacceptably low number for the return of having equality of the sexes in the armed forces. Short of a 6 foot 2 inch woman on anabolic steroids, I doubt one in one hundred women can put a grown man over their shoulder and carry him across a dangerous battlefield while artillery shells are bursting all around. Also, men are more apt to want to defend a woman in battle an put themselves in excessive danger to protect her. Then there’s the problem of feminine hygiene on the battlefield.
- Women in my Army unit at Ft. Bragg who got pregnant were excluded from many necessary duties like working to keep vehicles serviceable in the motor pool. The males had to pick up the slack. Pregnant women are excluded from deployment, etc.