I'll play your silly little game!
Do you even read real news
I honestly have no clue what this has to do with
ANYTHING we are discussing, but yes. I have on average an hour between classes every day I have classes (3x a week), I spend that time fucking off on the interweb, either on a forum or reading news sites.
However, I do find it absolutely HILARIOUS that you accuse me of being out of touch with what is going on in the world when you have mentioned women getting raped a couple times as if it is a new thing (Protip: men are coming forward in RECORD NUMBERS to report that they have been raped by their squadmates while on deployment. When you consider how many females don't report rapes, applying that to men is going to be even worse)
For all your bitching you have yet to give a reason why it's a good idea to put woman in combat roles.
Why do you have such a hard time remembering my stance on the matter? I haven't mentioned it every 5 posts like you have, but I did mention it.
I am ambivalent on the matter. I don't see it as a negative thing, but I damned sure don't see the point of it considering we are completing missions with all male troops.
It isn't cheaper and there is no proof it will increase the effectiveness of our combat troops.
How do you figure that it isn't cheaper? Hell, women are smaller so they eat less, by that argument I can state that they will be cheaper and it will be as valid an argument as that one.
And there never will be proof if the rules aren't changed. You can't have a point based on no facts.
The only reason you said was for someone's chance at a promotion.
Here is a point where I have a good solid argument. The ONLY real power within the military are Generals. There has NEVER been a female in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, hell I think that Colin Powell has been the only black man as a JCS member.
You want rape to not be a problem in the military, you get them to change the rules, are women going to be more concerned about prosecuting rapists, or men?
Unfortunately, this point is about the same as "recycling will save the earth"
Yes, it is a good thing, but it won't benefit anyone currently in the military above the rank of (roughly) O-4.
Fuck that. When you replace one warrior with another less effective warrior be it due to physical ability or because you can't use them in certain social situations you weaken the fighting force.
No one in this thread has been advocating lessening the physical fitness requirements for women, so how can you say that women will be a "less effective warrior" in the physical sense?
Why can't you use them in certain social situations? You claim that cultural conditions in Saudi Arabia won't allow it, but we aren't in Saudi Arabia in a combat situation.
Do you mean Afghanistan? Go look up Women's Rights in the 'stan. Everyone in charge of the country for last century, until the Taliban, was trying to reform women's rights. Since we are fighting the Taliban, we don't really want to reinforce their belief system.
Several thousands of years of history has shown this fact. Name me one war won by an army with majority women?
Ahhh... so your point is thousands of thousands of years of outdated information?
There have been several guerrilla groups that have kicked plenty of men's asses. I'll go looking for 'em later.
However... Fucking
Syria further along on this than we are. Look at what these female guards are expected to do
http://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/70908/report-after-gaddafis-female-guards-assads-female
There have been several enlightened societies in history that has tried but it wasn't the most effective use of their resources.
Which?
It has nothing to do with equality.
It has everything to do with equality. Literally everything.
You want to use your best chance at winning in the field while leaving the right mix of people at home to rebuild or maintain your society post war.
Ah yes, rebuilding post war... That is a pretty big issue right now with an entire generation of US citizens in the Middle East...
Oh, wait, there is something like 1% of US citizens in the entire US military, and less than half of those military members are in the Middle East?
You seem to be stuck in WWII. Wars are not fought the same way as they used to be, the modern military is much more advanced and much smarter than they were at that point in time. In today's world, iff enough people go to war to reach WWII levels we've got much more serious issues than women on the front line
You don't want your women coming back carrying part enemy babies with them.
What. The. Literal. Fuck.
This is fucking hilarious, absolutely god damned hilarious.
Seriously, I'm going to requote it in a larger font so more people see it.
You don't want your women coming back carrying part enemy babies with them.
Seriously, how racist are you? Are we going to be putting citizens of Middle Eastern descent in internment camps as the Japanese of WWII?
Look at the difficulties we had leaving long term Military in Germany and Japan post WW2.
What difficulties? The part where both countries welcome our troops with open arms? My father-in-law led many a town Oktoberfest parade when he was stationed in Germany. He was literally the Grand Marshall of the parade.
What difficulties?
Name me a news story in the last few decades where a middle eastern society has said send us your women to fix our problems.
Name me a female diplomat of the 60s or 70s that we could have sent. Hell, name me a Middle East country that has asked us to fix their problems, we went in and got ready to liberate Kuwait without them asking us.
You can't just demand they adopt our culture because we say so.
Every host country we are in is making strides to aid all of their citizens, including the women. We aren't demanding shit
Be sides pointless bitching you have yet to show any evidence on why this is such a great idea.
It isn't pointless bitching, you child. You have said nothing of value in this argument, the only things you have spouted off have been misogynistic, obsolete opinions based on a worldview that is decades out of date.
You.
Literally.
Know.
Nothing.
Of.
Value.
About.
This.
Topic.