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Thursday, December 16, 2004

Women in Combat

El Camino Real's Jeff Culbreath is justifiably troubled by this trend: Women Warriors and the American Empire. Mr. Culbreath, as always, minces no words: "The day they come for my daughters is the day the U.S. military becomes my enemy."

I share Mr. Culbreath's opinion about women in combat and that of General Eoin O'Duffy, leader of Irish volunteers who fought on the right side in the Spanish Civil War, Franco's Nationalists, "mainly motivated by a desire to defend the Catholic Church in Spain." O'Duffy was appalled when faced with fighting against the women "soldiers" the Republicans had sent to the front lines; he saw it as the ultimate sign of the Republicans' moral degradation.