Sacrificing Military Women on the Altar of Diversity
September 6, 2013 By Arnold Ahlert
On June 5, 2013, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) approved legislation to address sexual harassment in the military. Yet what HASC failed to address is the far more important and potentially devastating issue of the Obama administrations determination to put women in direct ground combat. When the Center for Military Readiness (CMR) asked senior Republican staffers why the organizations analysis, Sound Policy for Women in Military, was ignored, the center was told leaders feared being labeled anti-woman. In short, little political will exists to oppose Obamas new policies, which will endanger women and military integrity all for the sake of diversity.
Last January, outgoing Secretary of State Leon Panetta lifted the 1994 Combat Exclusion Rule that had prohibited women from serving in frontline combat units. This paved the way for women to join elite units such as the Army Rangers and Navy SEALs. It also does not merely lift restrictions on womens integration in direct ground combat, but allows women to be assigned or forced into such situations. A compliance deadline was set for June 2016.
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With regard to women in combat, it is an agenda destined to exact a price far greater than the nearly 150 military women who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan during the course of those wars. Yet for the Obama administration, higher numbers of dead and wounded women is a reasonable tradeoff. With all due respect to Gen. Dempsey, perhaps a conversation about that reality is far more important.
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