@Lash,
Lash wrote:
We don't bow down to misogyny, we shatter it.
Even if it's to the detriment of the U.S.A.? My point is that while women in the U.S. should be treated with equality, the nature of the world, with societies that do not respect women, could mean we can only negotiate, if the head of state is a man.
Some historians believe that the Israeli war, when Golda Meier was the Prime Minister, was a reflection of the Arabs thinking that a woman was weak. Regardless if they were wrong, it made the proverbial bully think it had a timid victim. It's just the reality. The Israelis stopped putting women in the front lines during combat, due to the realization that it was too humiliating to lose to a woman, and the Arabs fought better. Either way, some cultures outside the U.S. today just don't value women as leaders, and that would just make the job of the U.S. on the world stage more problematic. Get it?
