by Rob O'Hannon

Created on: November 23, 2009   Last Updated: November 24, 2009

Equal rights and freedoms should always mean equal responsibility to defend those rights and freedoms. If the Unites states revises comprehensive military services for its eligible citizens, then all eligible citizens by definition includes women.

Military service can be done in two ways: a military draft in response to an attack or a imminent threat to our national security, an allies' security, or international security, or it can be national service as part of the basic responsibilities of all citizens.

The United States has generally imposed drafts in time of war, while other nations have chosen a national service model that requires all citizens to serve.

Other nations also have a long history of employing women in the ranks, especially in times of war. Some of the most highly decorated soldiers in World War II were Russian women. In World War II US women, will not official in combat roles, were under fire in war zones across the world. Other nations have also had women fill vital roles in combat operations.

In the event of a national or national or international emergency serious enough to institute a draft , the United States would need all its citizens to effectively fight and win, particularly given the long range planning and duties required to execute modern combat missions.

Disqualifying over 50% of your potential effective force because of an old boy network mentality and faulty/slanted arguments put out by right-wing organizations like the Heritage Foundation is short-sighted and stresses our current combat capacities to the limits.

A reality that must be faced is that, like in World War II, American women are already under fire in combat situations and under threat from terrorism, both domestic and foreign, on the homefront. No matter what branch of the military they are in women work side by side with men in all military activities so that the argument against women in combat is more a point of finery than a policy reality.

Women have long recognized that equal rights means equal responsibility, and so want the expectation of fully the rewards and risks of defending those rights. Science has provided proof that the old arguments about the weaker sex, a linchpin of the old boy system's repression of female rights, is no longer valid.

Whenever they have been challenged and allowed to meet that challenge, women have done so, proving themselves as capable (if not more so in some areas) as men intellectually, emotionally and financially.

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