History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.
quote by Phyllis Schlafly
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.
quote by Phyllis Schlafly
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.
The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.
quote by Robert Jay Lifton
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.
quote by Phyllis Schlafly
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
quote by Barack Obama
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Length Of Love
This could be destiny
Oh sweetheart
I've had no sense of time
Since we started
I got friends in need
Oh sweetheart
I've grown lengths and lengths and lengths of love
Since we started this thing out
Combat salacious removal
Combat salacious removal
There is a bitter breed
Oh sweetheart
They will be watching you sometimes
With their bitter hearts
But we are through with these
Oh we're shifting the heartache
We want strong summer love, the most robust blood
Just to stay awake
Combat salacious removal
Combat salacious removal
Combat salacious removal
song performed by by Interpol
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness.
quote by Ike Skelton
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
quote by Jim Lehrer
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
To Combat
To combat I strive and find at close quarters
The opposition, who build a closet of anxiety.
Struggling and wincing, the combat is high,
A higher man shall concentrate and win.
The biggest one will fight for his own achievement,
The other one, a smaller achiever, graces the living of others.
A lettered man hides his own achievement,
With a reasoning mind, a rationale of exceptional strength.
To combat I live in a stupor, live in unhappy weather,
Just to let the rest be pitiful of me.
poem by Naveed Akram
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
The Combat Soldier
Many accept the name of soldier,
Yet sit in the office, at the rear.
Whilst the real soldier, the combat soldier,
Fight the enemy, eye to eye.
Their uniforms dirty, faces weathered,
Hands rough, minds tethered.
They’ve seen death’s hand, reaching for them,
Their friend’s, death did condemn.
Their weapons are scratched, and used,
Long in the battle, they are abused.
These soldiers seek refuge, in the wire,
Where many spend the operation in its entire.
The combat soldier gets a short rest,
Only to go back out, confined by their vest.
For days they spend in a crosshair,
Terrorist seeking them, death they declare.
Combat soldier, many missions did you fulfill,
Many friends lost, forever still.
No esteem or awards will you receive,
Those with the rank, medals you will receive.
Though the combat soldier defends the post,
Their treated like the lowest, or a ghost.
The soldier and combat soldier, aren’t the same,
The only similarities are in the name.
Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.
quote by Ahmed Ben Bella
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves.
quote by Peter DeFazio
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.
quote by Solomon Ortiz
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
quote by William O. Douglas
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.
quote by Eddie Bernice Johnson
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
While our nation faces many challenges that must be met regarding homeland security and our military readiness, it is imperative that we live within our means and wisely spend taxpayer dollars.
quote by Michael Crapo
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Through educational programming, Jewish American History Month will help raise the awareness of a people, their history and contributions. It will help combat anti-Semitism, a phenomenon that is on the rise and that unfortunately still exists in our Nation.
quote by Jan Schakowsky
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security.
quote by Ruben Hinojosa
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I think women are too valuable to be in combat.
quote by Caspar Weinberger
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!