Jessica Lynch

I know this subject has been talked about ad nauseum but I have to throw my two cents worth in. Everyone seems to be acting surprised that Jessica Lynch was raped while held captives by the Iraqis. This is what you get when women are near the front lines of a military conflict. War is ugly and brutal and our fairer sex has no reason to be near it. You had Iraqi men, full of adrenaline and testosterone, in this situation whose country was being invaded and they wanted to retaliate and did.

Don't get me wrong, I believe in equality of the sexes, but I was also raised to believe in protecting the fairer sex from exactly this kind of situation. Even Jessica Lynch is upset with the military and the media over there making her out to be a hero. Our military is no place to experiment with social engineering. It is to protect our country and to project our foreign policies throughout the world (whether you believe it should be used for the latter or not). For a more succinctly worded way of saying all of this go here.

As long as there is rape ... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in. Andrea Dworkin