What a shame we have not moved beyond the need for war. Like the line in the song says "War is not the answer…" 

Reading these type of stories always brings back memories of those who didn’t come back from war. 

And now we will have children who not only lose their fathers to war but their mothers as well.  

Considering war may always be with us - I would hope not, but the competition for resources, territory and idealogies seems to be part of our existence - then women should have the same opportunity as men to gain the benefits of military and combat service (if they manage to stay alive), which includes medical care, education and other benefits of service.  Let’s face it, in our competitive, materialistic and status-oriented society, service in the military provides opportunities to young people from financially disadvantaged families that they would not get elsewhere.  And I would imagine that not that many women who join the military are mothers.  So, as much as I would like to think that someday there may not be a need for war, thousands of years of human history prove otherwise.

Since women are able to multi-task and are most times compassionate human beings, I am hopeful that the concept of war will change more as more women are able to move "up-the-ranks" into positions of power.  And in the military, you can’t "move up the ranks", unless you have combat experience.  So it’s a necessary move for women who want to influence the military in the future.  They probably realize they can’t change the system, but hopefully, they can work within the system to construct a war that does not include massacre of innocents and non-combatants.

The whole idea of war is to make a fortune making weapons, while sitting safely in your mansion, and letting those who use the weapons, and fight and die, do their duty to you. We may as well include the women if they are willing. They would never release the true numbers of women raped in the service of our masters.Ever notice there is never a buy one, get one free, sale on armament?

I agree with baby snooks.  We should just move beyond the need for war.   I’m thinking that if we disbanded the armed forces that all of the world would too.   Thank goodness we finally have a president who will tell the world how sorry we are for all of the mayhem and foolishness caused by our war mongering past.  I’m sorry for any man or woman who is forced by circumstances beyond their control to join our armed forces because they cannot do anything else productive in life and had no other choice.   I fully support the troops but I know that they would never be doing what they are doing if they weren’t brainwashed by our imperialist past.     And then they come home and they are all psycho and start killing civilians at random.   Because they don’t know any better.  

s/off    

 

 

 

With the rhetoric of war, I’m somehow reminded of  the John Lennon lyric: "All we are saying is, give peace a chance".  And then, of course, Mahatma Gandhi’s famous quote "an eye for an only makes the whole world blind". 

Gandhi’s famous quote actually being,  "an eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind".