Heh. Speak for yourself. I just applied for tags for next fall.

1. Women in the Military – Brian Mitchell
2. The Kinder, Gentler Military – Stephanie Guttman
3. Coed Combat – Kingsley Browne

There are many reasons fighting wars is man’s work, but I’ll leave you with a moral argument, which is the most powerful, IMHO. Natural selection has operated on almost all vertibrates to make the male expendible, aka cheaper to make, and cheaper to use up, than the female, esp. in sexually dimorphous species (including mammals). The worker bees are male, and sacrifice themselves for the sake of the queen, who is a female. The former cannot reproduce and perpetuate the species; the latter can. The same is true of human beings. Women are the foundation of home, hearth and family in the sense that only women are capable of bearing children and perpetuating humanity. If a civilization fails to reproduce itself, it perishes. Therefore, a society that risks – even encourages – sending women into battle when able-bodied men are available, is literally sacrificing the seed corn, as the old saying goes. What does it say about a culture when that culture preferrentially sends its women into battle? In my view, nothing positive. Indeed, such a culture would have, in the not so recent past, been regarded not as “progressive,” but as morally bankrupt and ill. The death of a man in war is tragic, but the death of a woman in battle is an affront to all we once held dear – it is an abomination, a violation of natural law, not to mention the Judeo-Christian tradition western civilization was built upon.

Years ago, men used to hunt and bring home game. Today, we work and bring home the dollar so we can go to Whole Foods and buy the meat.

When men have this instinct taken away from them, everyone suffers. Another switch is to protect.