Women if Foxholes

“ No Country For Old Men 1991 Congress authorizes women to fly in combat missions. 1993 Congress authorizes women to serve on combat ships. 1998 For the first time, women fighter pilots fly combat missions off aircraft carrier in Operation Desert Fox, Iraq. 2013 Defense Secretary Leon Panetta lifts a longstanding ban on women serving in combat, Rush: We have Joe Geezer from Omaha.  Are you there Joe? Joe G. Yes, but I sure had to wait a long time. Rush: Reminded you of your army days didn't it?  I understand you served  during WWII.  Joe G. (Laughs) Yes. Under Patton. I'm 76 years old Rush, but I still hate the waiting. Rush:What do you think about  allowing women to serve as combatants? Joe G.. Why do they want to?  Hell, most men try like hell to stay out of war zones.  I think it's a mistake to put women in a foxhole with men.. Rush: Well, so far that hasn't happened, but you know it's coming; but what's your problem with it? Joe G.:  Rush, if there was a women in my foxhole, I'm afraid I'd probably rape her, and so would damn near all the men I know.. Rush: Speechless..  (ca1990 anecdotal -memory) As I move along into my dotage,  the male machismo thing isn't nearly as prominent as it once was.  And Lord knows that I've applauded  the women soljers I've known, or heard about on this Blog for their patriotism, passion, and ability (mostly) to think straighter than their civilian counterparts.  But back around that time (1991)Joe Geezer called Rush, and perhaps triggered by it,  I got into a discussion with my friend Banning.  He was a Vietnam veteran Naval officer w/four daughters, and more amenable to women serving on the front lines than I.  He did, oddly enough)  agree that James Webb was spot-on with "Women Can't Fight") Banning asked me why I was so adverse to it.  I answered, "Because there's no woman I can't beat the crap out of. "   He thought it a silly response, and that was the end of that.  But there was a lot going on in that answer, and I suspect if you're ever going to understand what, you already do. . As a veteran of incessant playground wars during my Chicago school days, I was stating a lesson that I think many anthropologists might agree with.  In order to lead, you have to be recognized as being at least as physically tough as the men you lead. You have to have reached that point where fighting you just isn't worth it. What started all this today, was cowardly leftist turd Leon Panetta— installed as Sec/Defense by Barry O (which says it all)— breaking down the last feminist barrier to front line combat.  He did it as he walked out the door, and thus won't have to deal with it.  I know what you're saying, "But Rodge, times are different.  Men don't think like that anymore." I know. ”