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Originally Posted by filihok
Are Americans in danger of going extinct?
This seems like stupid reasoning.
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Actually, they are, more and more Americans are delaying parenthood and when they finally get around to it, the children they produce are ... subpar. Then there is our military's awful toll on the important 18 - 25 y.o. demographic: for every soldier killed in Iraq (~5K) or Afghanistan (~3K?) there are 5 injured, three of them catastrophically. 1.2 commit suicide post deployment. Many had children prior to deployment. Many did not. Either way, they are gone. No good to America any longer. America is going to need them someday. She just doesn't realize it yet. Like you don't.
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Originally Posted by filihok
There is simply no good reason for women not to be fighting alongside men.
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Truth is, there is no good reason for
anyone to be fighting war from DFP's, APC's, or door to door with carbines or 50 caliber guns on turrets... ... I mean... if your goal is to get rid of as many smart, fit, and capable young people as possible then, sure, war is one way to do it. Slow and messy IMO but, it is a way. As a way of doing good in the world.... ... war is a big FAIL. I don't advocate the cowardly practice of using drone aircraft controlled from the U.S. mainland to carry out operations in the Middle East and/or South Asia but they are at least utilizing some of the technology that has been developed since the Punic Wars when soldiers practically flung themselves at one another.
The U.S. military has wasted an unconscionable number of young men. 152 women may have died in Iraq but that isn't even a 20th of the number of men that have died. If the number of women starts going up, even fractionally you are going to see the American people EXPLODE in anger. A woman POW is going to be raped. Repeatedly. Until she is dead or rescued. That is simply a given. We are not fighting enemies that will fail to use that avenue of demoralization.
There are enough women in harms way simply from the logistics of being a female in a military unit deployed to the Middle East. To compound the problem by allowing some to assume front line combat duties is just asking for the stateside repercussion that will erupt. To say nothing of the internal frictions. Maybe its me but I don't think huge numbers of effeminate men with testosterone levels of nine year old boys are enlisting in the military. I think your military squadrons have more than the baseline average of high testosterone, **** it or fight it, types. Go ahead, throw some girls in there with them, admonish them to "look, but don't touch". See where you get. I don't know why we are even arguing about this. It's a done deal is it not? May as well do what we do when some outrageous thread gets going in P&OC. Stick some microwave popcorn in the cooker and pour some Mountain Dew in a sippy cup.
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