Panetta Lifts Ban on Women Serving in Combat.

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A broad majority of Americans support letting women serve in combat roles.

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I support this 100%. As much as I dislike the idea of conscription, I also support women having to register for the draft at 18 as long as men do too. Fair is fair.

Naturally, I fully expect that will happen as a matter of course.  It wouldn't make sense otherwise, now that combat roles have been opened to women.  

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I support this 100%. As much as I dislike the idea of conscription, I also support women having to register for the draft at 18 as long as men do too. Fair is fair.

Naturally, I fully expect that will happen as a matter of course.  It wouldn't make sense otherwise, now that combat roles have been opened to women.  

Short of an enormous emergency on the scale of WWII, I fully do not expect that to happen. It's a double standard. You win some. You lose some. Women would be outraged. Why would a politician propose such a thing? Laws don't have to make sense.

You're not making any sense to me.  We are talking about the Selective Service, are we not?  Where's the controversy? 

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Washington Republicans don't know who they're representing anymore.

Sure they do.

That's not the first image I was thinking of:

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I support this 100%. As much as I dislike the idea of conscription, I also support women having to register for the draft at 18 as long as men do too. Fair is fair.

Naturally, I fully expect that will happen as a matter of course.  It wouldn't make sense otherwise, now that combat roles have been opened to women.  

Short of an enormous emergency on the scale of WWII, I fully do not expect that to happen. It's a double standard. You win some. You lose some. Women would be outraged. Why would a politician propose such a thing? Laws don't have to make sense.

You're not making any sense to me.  We are talking about the Selective Service, are we not?  Where's the controversy? 

Ask a dozen women how they would feel about having to sign up. I think you'll find a great deal of controversy.

Evidence?  And I don't just mean Naso-like anecdotes -do you have any polls to back that up with? 

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I wonder how the Israeli military handles this. 

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I wonder how the Israeli military handles this. 

Answered my own question.