Wednesday, January 17, 2007

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,157095,00.html

This is actually more of an article than a blog, but several people responded to it and blogged their opinions to the statements made in "Barring Women From Combat Support Would Shortchange Military." This discusses why women are important in their roles, and is in response to the desires of some to pull women out of "dangerous" positions in Iraq and replace them with men. The problem is that doing so would possibly bring back the dreaded draft, in order to replace the women with men who can fill the positions that they formerly held. They do not believe that women will be drafted, therefore, if a call for selective service comes around, but that a traditional draft will be the response to the removal of volunteer women from warfare.

Interesting. I'm not a feminist by any means, nor do I swing to the opposite extreme and I try to be objective when reading these blogs and articles, but it is so funny to see how carefully everyone treads, taking precautions to be politically correct and not insult anyone's "rights and freedoms" while still getting their ideas across. I suspect however, that people will, in general, tend to be more blunt in what they have to say in their blogs than they would in any sort of official document or righting. Nice to see, in spite of the harshness of it, what people really think on all sides of the issue.

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