Women in Combat

Does that picture say anything to you?
I think I posted something about this some time ago...
Recently I've been seeing a lot about this issue, in various forms, and it is really pissing me off. In fact, its getting to the point where I have to wonder if having women in the military is a good idea at all, mostly because of the slippery slope it seems to entail. There are reasons, dammit, why women should not serve in combat, and they are not scurilous reasons, they are very real. I think anyone who has read much military history, especially ancient, will know what I mean when I say that unit cohesion is important, and injecting women into that environment radically changes it, even today. Not to mention women are more likely to get injured, not up to the physical challenge, etc. See my linkfest entry for more on that. I would just like to put up a few further things:

No one seems to understand that it is not the primary purpose of our armed forces to provide employment opportunities for women and young men. Our armed forces exist for the single purpose of defending the nation by destroying any enemy that threatens our national security. Clearly, women can contribute to the nation's defense, but not as warriors.

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Has our nation sunk so low that we are willing to send our daughters and young mothers into battle? Is chivalry completely dead? Breathes there a man with soul so dead that he will not rise up and defend his wife, his sweetheart, his mother and his daughter, against those who want to wound or capture them, whoever they may be?

I get very uneasy whenever I see anything about women in combat, and its starting to make me uneasy about women in the military in general, even though they can surely do somethings.