In this news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc talk about Canada’s election, polls on Trump, power outage in Spain, Ukraine negotiations, Belichick interview, David Brooks claims Judge Dugan a hero, and JB Pritzker calls for disruption.
When you introduce sexual tension, whether heterosexual or homosexual, into an organization, you decrease the harmony of that organization. In most organizations, it doesn’t matter much but in military organizations engaged in infantry combat, it can result in disaster. I watched Marines start bilging each other as soon as a pretty woman joined the organization. Whose fault was that? The men’s. So what? The result was the same. We have to have women in the Services so we have to deal with the downsides BUT we need to make exception’s for infantry. Do other countries use women? Yes but most as a last resort and it doesn’t always turn out well. For a great look at infantry combat conditions, read Bing West’s “1,000,000 Steps”, following a Marine platoon in Kandahar.