drafting females

I think that the draft is horrible but if it must be then everyone should be a candidate. We all live here.

This could work really well. After all, old folks have less to lose, yaknow? We can employ tactics that are more effective given the fact that the actual number of productive years lost by the casualties is much lower....

It would be a slow, but deadly, charge.

/sarcasm

Cycloptichorn

Old age and treachery.....

What ever happened to equal rights for women? Wouldn't a draft make everyone equal? I say draft women for combat; there are enough women who could handle combat loads that they would actually make pretty good infantry soldiers.

We have to have plenty of people in support positions as well, and there's no reason why a woman wouldn't be just as good as a man at the vast majority of logistical and support roles...

Cycloptichorn

Draft them all and sort them out when they report. I'm for that.

Baldimo


When you grow up have someone explain the differences between man and women to you.

To hear the libbers tell it, there are no (or should be no) differences in the workplace. And the military is just another workplace.

You see, in my opinion, this equal rights for women stuff turned into a bunch of BS a long time ago. What started out as a good idea (as so many good ideas do) got blown to h3ll in a handbasket when women (generally speaking now and again this is just my opinion) would not or could not accept just being equal. They wanted to be more than equal. They wanted not only to suppress their male counterparts but turn them into less than equals. The women themselves jumped down from the pedestal of honour and grace and reverence. For what? So they could snarl at the next man who tried to be polite and open a door for them? So they could male bash all they wanted in the name of feminism and turn around and yell sexual harassment when a man made even the slightest comment about a woman? So they could earn equal pay for an equal job? We know that is still not the case in about 90 percent of the jobs out there.

Equal rights for women in the military is a joke. You don't see communal bathrooms, showers, living quarters and equal treatment there. Women in the military (even in Iraq) get to take showers every single day. Men don't. Women get to say any harassing, sexual remark they want about the men they serve with, but if a guy says something, he can be brought up on charges. Women get an extra day or two per month if she is "not feeling well" because of her period. Men don't

"Ultra" Feminism has killed a lot of the kindness, politeness, gentleness, respectfulness that both genders used to have for each other.

Let those who wish to join, join. But please don't call it equal....

Personally, I'll stay on my pedastal awhile longer.I kinda like being smart, attractive and adored.

I was a Naval officer in the 70's just long enough to satisfy my ROTC requirements. Being a woman in the service was NO fun at all, and I heard more misogynistic crap in those two years than all the time before or since. Things must be better now, but if my daughters asked me about a career in the service I would not advise them to head that way. But, certainly, women should be drafted if men are, and there are plenty of jobs to be done that can include them.

But of course, it won't happen. We can raise twice as many people as we need by simply raising military salaries as much as a draft, and its ancillary programs, would cost. Is there a more glaring example of the silliness of the Democratic party than that THIS was an election issue?