If Obama reinstates the draft, will it/should it include women?

[angelatc]

It will include women, but it shouldn't. Women in combat units have always been demoralizing for military forces.

Pfffft.

 

[Nirvikalpa]

I wish Rational THinker were here so I could cry with him about not being treated as an equal member of society.

I walked into a bar, and I heard some guys say "Oh, is that a woman over there?" and they all put their heads together ans started whispering. I know they were sexists.

At least most racists (Trance excepted) have the courtesy to pretend they're not racists when they're in the company of other races. Women get no such courtesy, and are ridiculed for even suggesting they should.

That's very true, and very sad, and I have been in situations like that now that I think about it.

And women should be in the draft as long as men are in the draft - it should be equal. Although it would be nice if NO ONE was forced, men or women. Slaves to our masters...

 

[Jeremy]

Yah and not that it really matters...

because there's not going to be a draft. impossible during the internet age

I dare someone to try

 

[nbhadja]

Wouldn't those women be the very ones screaming to be on the front lines?

Never. Those women only want equal rights when it suits them. They are hypocrites.

 

[constitutional]

It will include women, but it shouldn't. Women in combat units have always been demoralizing for military forces.

In fact, we shouldn't have a draft. Forced labor and indentured servitude to the government is a violation of the very concept of freedom and personal liberty.

Screw it, lets have the women serve while men stay back. Men in combat units will be demoralizing for military forces.

 

[Bman]

Just curious what you guys think...

Well I'm a few years past the age of eighteen so maybe someone younger could tell me if women have to fill out draft cards. If they don't the answer is NO. Not to mention Obama's got two little girls. I doubt he would send them to the front line or any other girl for that matter.

Obama sucks but some of the rhetoric against him is just silly.

 

[newtoforums]

No, a realist. It's bad enough if as a male soldier you get tossed into a POW camp. Can you imagine how much worse it would be if you were a woman? We used to respect women enough to try to protect them from situations like that.

Furthermore, the unnecessary jealousy and competition that is introduced into the military when men and women begin to exercise their natural attraction for each other harms unit morale, causes unnecessary strife and discord.

And the basic fact of all of this is that we as a society have lost our sense of respect for womanhood. "Equal rights" has killed even the common courtesies that men used to extend to women, whether it be opening the door for them or protecting them from dangerous situations. And this loss of respect for womanhood is at the heart of untold numbers of domestic violence cases, wife abuse cases, rape, etc. Women have become nothing more than objects for men.

In our society, women have become men and men have become boys.

1. Men get raped and sexually assaulted in POW camps too.
2. Aren't women often the leaders of the POW camps?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse

 

[newtoforums]

Well I'm a few years past the age of eighteen so maybe someone younger could tell me if women have to fill out draft cards. If they don't the answer is NO. Not to mention Obama's got two little girls. I doubt he would send them to the front line or any other girl for that matter.

Obama sucks but some of the rhetoric against him is just silly.

Female politicians with daughters and sons have constantly "volunteered" their sons for a draft.

Everybody has an equal right to not be killed. Doesn't the constitution guarantee equal protection?

Not everybody believes in wimpy chivalry.

 

[danberkeley]

Send only the feminazis.

 

[newtoforums]

Send only the feminazis.

That's like all women.

 

[danberkeley]

That's like all women.

Not really. Only the ones who were brainwashed in college.

 

[vodalian]

Yah and not that it really matters...

because there's not going to be a draft. impossible during the internet age

I dare someone to try

http://www.internetworldstats.com/me/il.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces#Regular_service

 

[angelatc]

Yes it should.

I'd rather have a Rachel Maddow-like woman than an Alexis Arquette-like man on the front lines any day.