Remember how we proteaed our children before we respected their ability to protea themselves? The ability to protea generates respea. But the process of proteaing comes by coping with the shadow side of the world. And with that coping comes a loss of innocence. When the man who has mastered protecting meets the innocent woman, […]

Foreign Women and Children Can Leave Iraq, Hussein Says Imagine a law requiring our daughters to enter a jungle and risk being shot through their heads. If you heard a news report lamenting that innocent men and children were being shot, would you want to shout, "Wait a minute, my daughter is innocent too!”? We […]

ITEM The Defense Department gave $2 mdlion to Louisiana State University to study how to return brain-injured soldiers to battle (rather than help them adjust to civilian life) The Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine protested. But wait… The protest was not over the recycling of brain-in/ured men, it was over the subjection of cats to […]

In the recent I ran-Iraq War, Iran — and later Iraq — put "human waves’’ of boys as young as 6 in the front lines. The boys were throwing grenades and shotting, which ultimately forced the Iraqis to fire back and kill the young boys. However, many Iraqi soldiers reported that the moment they killed […]

The elite class or the dead class: Is the military an outgrowth of male competition and power? My policy? Sir, I am a soldier. I do not have a policy. French general Henri Giraud45 We think of top military brass as the bastion of male power. In the United States, as in France, the policy […]

The more chauvinist the country, the more it protects women. And there­fore the more it limits women. Italy and Spain protea women completely from military service by not permitting them to join. Denmark gives women more options (to join and to be in combat) but still protects women from the draft.35 Like the United States, […]

Why will таїечіпіу draft registration and combat requirements ultimately be recognized as the most unconstitutional laws in America? They are a breach of America’s most inalienable right: the right to life. Depriving our fathers and sons of their right to live because of their sex is the greatest possible violation of the Fourteenth Amendment s […]

In many IJ. S. states, an 18-year-old boy who has not registered for the draft cannot attend a state school.35 He cannot receive even a loan for a private school. Male-only draft registration leaves a woman who doesn’t register for the draft able to: 1. Go to a state school 2. Go to a private […]

It isn’t politically correct to even discuss this in the services, but. . . a large percentage of women soldiers are electively aborting their fetuses after they’ve served their purpose of enabling them to avoid their tour of duty in Operation Desen Storm… It is wrong to use a fetus to shirk the responsibility’ for […]

Combat training strips you of your self-image so you can be rebuilt to fit the Army mold. Bruce Gilkin, Vietnam Veteran21 When every man in the armed services is required to enter combat upon command and every woman either has the option of combat or is protected from combat, we produce two distinct mentalities. Combat […]