* This is almost a comical level of disassociation from reality. For those who are familiar with the Bible (and if you are not you should be) the foolishness has gone beyond Proverbs level and has entered Isaiah level (that is not a good thing, for the record).
* Because nothing gets America juiced up and clamoring for war like the thought of some poor woman being held by jihadis. So we will send a couple platoons of pretty white girls to Syria where they can be captured. In a few weeks there will be jihadi videos decapitating or torturing them. After that, every politician in America will be demanding full scale war against every Arab country.
* Trump is a Sailer reader. Watching him on Hannity and he says we need to retaliate against terrorist family members. I suspect he got (or his advisors anyway) the idea from Sailer’s taki article on 4 ways to save Europe…
It’s a pretty common sense approach, which I always thought was necessary, but only Sailer can verbalise it so well..
This is really turning out to be a Sailer/Breitbart News election….
* There was a Chuck Norris movie in the 1980s called Invasion USA. The plot was that a bunch of Muslim terrorists entered the US via Zodiac boats. What a quaint idea! They could have just applied for visas.
* The Selective Service System is the last sane bureau in the entire federal government. Largely because no one’s paid it any attention since 1980. Don’t screw it up.
Its very existence is a tacit admission that double standards can be valid.
* Let’s just ban men entirely from the US military.
Then we can sit back and see how much women like doing this job that men have had the “privilege” of doing for so long.
Of course then the sea lanes would be stolen from the world in short order, air and space would be lost in a flash, and we would be conquered overnight by the first opportunistic army to come along.
* America has already been invaded. It’d be more accurate to say America is being colonized. Immigrants who don’t assimilate are really colonists.
* Why the hell would anyone invade us, when they can come here freely and suffer no risk of death?
The real people who suffer from this will be the women who join the military and wind up getting sent into battle. The amount of gear you have to carry into battle is hell on the backs of even lots of strong men. Good luck if you’re a woman trying to do that.
I’m not really sure this is meant as a serious policy. It’s either meant to completely destroy the military, or to bait Republicans into fighting “the war on women.” A responsible Republican administration will have to reverse this, and it will make them look bad.
* Why the hell would anyone invade us, when they can come here freely and suffer no risk of death?
* The real people who suffer from this will be the women who join the military and wind up getting sent into battle. The amount of gear you have to carry into battle is hell on the backs of even lots of strong men. Good luck if you’re a woman trying to do that.
I’m not really sure this is meant as a serious policy. It’s either meant to completely destroy the military, or to bait Republicans into fighting “the war on women.” A responsible Republican administration will have to reverse this, and it will make them look bad.
* In 2003 a female reporter with the Chicago Tribune was embedded with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq. The reporter, Kirsten Scharnberg, recounted her experiences with trying to live in the field and keep up with the soldiers in an article entitled A woman goes to war in a man’s world. Here are some choice excerpts from this Iowa-raised farm girl who had run a marathon before the war.
“After learning that I was to be the Tribune’s only female embedded journalist, I promised myself never to write the woman-on-the-front-lines story.
It just wouldn’t be an issue. I would find a way to blend in. I wouldn’t be treated differently because I wouldn’t let anyone treat me differently.
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The soldiers I had met up with said I could accompany them into the city–a 4-mile hike. I didn’t know whether I could hike 4 feet with all that gear, let alone 4 miles, but we set out. At about mile 2 1/2, I was about to give out. I was contemplating saying something needlessly melodramatic like, “Go ahead, save yourselves,” when a soldier asked, “Ma’am, can I carry that battery for you?”
All my resolve failed. I handed the battery to the young man–who already was lugging a much heavier load than I was, including a fully loaded M-4 assault weapon that he would be expected to use in case of an attack.
The decision nagged at me for days. Not only had I not been able to pull my own weight, I also had potentially put that young soldier at risk. What if he had not been able to aim his weapon effectively had we been ambushed in that wooded expanse of territory approaching Najaf? What if he had fallen on the rough terrain and misfired his weapon, injuring someone?
As tough as I think I was out there, as proud as I am to have lived for more than two months in conditions I never dreamed possible, those questions bother me still.
Back in Chicago recently, the Tribune had a welcome-home party for a bunch of us who had covered the war. A female editor asked me whether my experience had given me an opinion about putting female soldiers into the infantry and on the front lines. I told her about the car battery and also about the many times I watched big, tough, burly male soldiers nearly collapse during 10-kilometer hikes with rucksacks, ammunition, TOW missiles, radios and machine guns. I’m not qualified to say that no woman could do that job, but I suspect that it would be a rare one who could.
I had run a marathon not long before the war and worked out almost every day. I grew up on an Iowa farm where manual labor was part of the bargain. But I had been bested by a car battery, and when I handed my load to that soldier, I admitted that I never could have cut it in the infantry.”
My guess is she was in better shape than most of the females going into the military today. I wonder if Ash Carter has read this first hand account. God help the infantry.
* Captured female soldiers being raped and or used as sex slaves is a distinct possibility. Becoming the star of an ISIS snuff film/propaganda video is also in the cards.
* Just the other day, my 40kg girlfriend was wearing her child-sized pink Converse sneakers and saying, “I’d love to shoot me some towel-heads–if only I could have a combat assignment in the army! Life is so unfair…” when my 60 year old mother replied, “Yes, deary, I really wanted to squat next to a jungle trail for hours, waiting to put some bullets in the Viet Cong, but the army has been holding us back for years!”
That’s when my grandmother put down her tea and said, “I always said these hands were made for throttling Krauts, not holding teacups. My youth was wasted!”
* There are some very high quality people who join the armed forces, and some very low quality ones, but I personally think they are all daft to do so, the women are slightly more so. As the Sailersphere knows full well, the threat to America is through immigration not ground wars. If we were under real threat from these Arab holes we could simply let the air force drop some bombs from a comfy chair. No, these wars are for show and profit, and for the greater good of Israel. No thanks. Not worth my life or a soldier’s life… why can’t they see that?
* We need a rapid response team consisting entirely of women and we can send them over to Syria and see how they do. If having a Japanese Regiment was OK in WWII then why not an Amazon Regiment?
Sometimes you have to let your kids fall off the bike before they learn a lesson.
* Do you think uglier officers would send prettier soldiers on more dangerous missions out of spite?
Or hold them back out of concupisence?
* First, the Russians and others were in dire straits and had to use women in a manner akin to scrapping the bottom of the barrel.
Second, they were used on their home turf to fight an invader. Because of this, both males and females, were able to get resupplied by friendly villagers and nearby weapons caches that were located throughout the countryside. So these folks did not need to carry heavy rucksucks full of food and ammo to sustain themselves for multiple days.
The US Army on the other hand is an expeditionary force. Ideally it means we won’t fight on our home turf. As a result we have to take our gear with us. Soldiers going out on patrol must carry a lot of gear because they might have to sustain themselves for 3 days or more without support. They don’t have the luxury of buried caches or helpful villagers. Notice how the Russians used scorched earth to deny the Germans anything they could scrounge on Russian soil.
This is why women are going to kill the infantry. If one soldier in the squad cannot carry his load, the load is not left behind. It is simply redistributed among the rest of the squad members. Not only does each squad member carry a few days rations of food and water, he carries his personal ammunition PLUS he will carry extra rounds for the crew served weapons that are attached to the squad.
For example, everyone will have to carry one or two rounds of 60mm mortar ammunition along with a couple of 100 round boxes of ammunition for the medium machine gun. If one guy pulls up lame, the other guys have to double up. That story of the lady reporter giving up her load to the already burdened infantrymen is going to be repeated a lot unfortunately.
* If you listened to Serial (season 1), you’ll remember that Rabia Chaudry is the name of the woman who inspired Sarah Koenig to investigate the case to begin with–and that, among other things, she complained that Adnan Syed was a helpless victim of The Backlash. It seems very likely that the Rabia Chaudry of Maryland quoted in the Post story is the same woman. If so, she has quite the talent for attracting attention from the national media.
