| Author | Subject: Re: Are women suited for war |
| Andrew Kucharchuk MD | Posted At 09:26:18 02/16/2002
I am a Orthopedic surgeon and a Navy veteran from the 1970's; I strongly feel that women have a role in National Defense outside of fighting ships and ground combat. Women soldiers are much superior to male soldiers in an administrative capacity as anyone who has who has worked in a military hospital will tell you. I do feel there is a great deal of hypocrisy about why women serve in the military. The real reason is that our ruling political class both right wing and left wing are terrified of having their androgynous male offspring do any kind of military service. The Vietnam War was the great emasculator of the American Establishment; feminization of the military was the insurance policy that the white perfumed princes would never bear arms in defense of their country. There were more black female military reservists killed in the Gulf War than white male Ivy Leaguers. |