Lex Gets It Right
While marveling over the CFPA, Lex mentions the wonder that is a bunch of fighter jocks.
I think we should remember the asymmetric PSYOP value of our fighting women. In a war with people who think women are little better than property, the fact that our women can kick their ass from here to Tuesday is a force multiplier and a tool we can use in the fight. It’s not the Diversity Ãœber Alles advertising about “first [insert special group member here] to be a [some job]” I’m talking about, either. It’s playing on and exploiting Qutb’s followers’s deep psychotic fear of a capable, violent, dangerous, attractive….chick.
As that one pilot said in Mark Bowden’s excellent 2003 Atlantic article, “You’ve just been killed by a girl.”
More of that, please.
Even if they’re just, you know, airedales. Somebody’s got to wear those scarves…
8 Responses to “Lex Gets It Right”
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September 9th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
Chap, that force multiplier technique was a heartening take on one advantage of enlightenment over backwardness. As delightful as the thought of our female fighters killing jihadis is, we shall rarely learn particulars about it and it will never become a feature of PSYOPS unless it becomes necessary to escalate the first stage (quarantine and attrition) phase of the war against Islamist fascism to the fourth phase (scorched earth).
Until then anything that might, by offending Islam, spread the contagion of the Islamic virus is obviously prohibited.
September 9th, 2006 at 11:42 pm
While I personally feel that women in combat roles is immoral, and can have a demoralizing effect to the men fighting beside them,
I can certainly appreciate the value of your suggestion (I’m not saying women aren’t capable of doing the job, I just think it’s morally wrong). The jihadists don’t hesitate to exploit any of our cultural weaknesses against
us, we should do the same, such as leafletting after an aerial attack that the pilot was a woman. It could even have a woman’s picture on it, not the actual pilot of course, it could be a model stateside. Something to gorgeous to drive the lustfilled Muslims mad.
September 10th, 2006 at 9:18 am
Although I have deap-seated reservations as the sonarman said above I can see reality for what it is. Exploit it? Sure. But against a more worthy foes(s) that may not work to our advantage…
BTW, if it wasn’t for the heads/beds issues, there would be plenty of women aboard subs. What safer place to be in a modern war that requires technical skills? It ain’t CAPT Beach’s WWII force anymore.
B2
September 10th, 2006 at 9:19 am
As you might guess, I think there are plenty of arguements that take precedence over this one as reasons to fight terrorism. I’ve never understood why people fixate on this item. That Arab nations choose to view the role of women differently than the United States is none of my business. That members of a particular nation choose to violate US soveriegnty to attack the US is.
In my observations, Arabs and for that matter Muslims in general, are actually very family oriented. That does not mean however that they think it is worth turning their societies upside down simply to provide them with what is one of the the reasons they think the West is decadent.
In other words, how other nations arrange their societies is none of our business provided they stay within their borders. Please don’t add spreading to feminsims to spreading democracy. Both are squishy reasons at best.
September 10th, 2006 at 9:34 am
Such an approach could also backfire. It could also strengthen their resolve to continue fighting precisely to change what they see as our errant behaviour.
Fred Reed did a great column on this subject a while back.
” Remember when he had Kind-of-Twofer Rice publicly offer help to the Syrian opposition so they would overthrow their evil dictator and become wildly democratic? Same problem. Nobody told her, the poor bat-brained thing, that people don’t like being messed with by outsiders. Nor, being Secretary of State, did she know how intensely the United States is detested by most of the world. How would she know? It’s a secret known only to eight billion select people.”
America has one set of values. Other nations have different ones. Whatever happened to letting nations choose for themselves? The real issue is getting them to stay in their borders and sell us what we need at our price.
September 11th, 2006 at 7:09 am
Skippy,
I was a believer in the “live and let live” policy you advocate pre 9-11. Now I understand that is not possible dealing with a 9th century mindset set in motion through global terrorism.
Fundamental. For the future. For our children.
B2
September 11th, 2006 at 8:41 am
Still don’t see what taming terrorism has to do with women’s rights. Half of our allies in this war don’t allow women the same liberties the west does. They think we Americans are crazy to put up with what we do……………
Plus, how many wars does one nation really want to take on at a time. National Soveriegnty has to mean something or we are reduced to fighting a war with out end. We can’t change the whole world at once. Nations will change at their own pace. Trying to rush it risks a miscarriage….like in Iraq.
September 11th, 2006 at 8:55 am
Enough.