Hi John Mikes You wrongly assume that the killing power of the infantry necessarily has to do with imperialism or aggression. I believe in PEACE THROUGH SUPERIOR FIREPOWER.
----- Receiving the following content ----- From: John Mikes Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-27, 12:31:36 Subject: Re: The "fairness" argument and women in the infantry Roger -? thank you for your clear-minded post. I my add: there is a shortage of men for the imperialistic politics the US seems to pursue and without resoring to general draft only the female input is hopeful.? John Mikes On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Roger Clough <rclo...@verizon.net> wrote: ? The "unfairness" argument?or allowing women into the infantry is emotionally based, thus?ard to defend against, so that regrettably I fell for it. ?he argument is that?ot allowing women into the infantry is unfair to women because "they are just as good as men" at fighting,? and not allowing them in the infantry is unfair to their advancement. ? This pov has been tested by the Bristih military, and it was withdrawn after 18 months because it didn't work.? ? The function of the military is to insure our national security, not to be fair to women, so that the correct question should be, instead, "will allowing women into the infantry improve the killing power of the military ?" ? ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. ? ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
