ITS DRIVING ME NUTS HOW MUCH WAR THERE IS FOR POWER!\nif only the women were running the world instead of the men in power who just want to blow stuff up. and i am a guy by the way.
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If women were running things, there would be little or no war. Women are nurturing creatures and some are very senstive, so they wouldn't want anyone to die.
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Women being in the SEALs is too specific. You should write about whether women should be allowed into comabt roles. You have plenty of examples, the best being the Isreali use of women for combat and the US use of women in Combat support roles which more and more lead to an actual combat situation. In the past, women in combat support roles rarely ever crossed the line to combat, but it is happening very frequently now in Iraq and Afganistan. It is a timely and very interesting subject.
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I agree...women are a lot of work (being one, I should know).\n\nI think it's funny...
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If you check the figures, you will see more Republicans have sons/daughters in the war zone than do the Democrats.\n\n Use to be a time when military service was a rite of passage to manhood, now they run to Canada. I think if in the best intrest of the countrys defense, then bring back the draft. Also think people running for any Federal Office should have military service.\n\n As for me? Spent 8 years in the military and went overseas 4 times. My Daughter is also in the Air Force and scheduled to deploy next year. What a shame when a woman has more courage than a lot of "men".\n\n  It also amazes me, the ones saying Iraq is unjust and illegal are the same ones calling for the U.S. to send troops into Dafur.
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EDIT:  I just read "don't panic"'s summirization - I could have skipped my post, but I put enough time into it that I'l let it stand.\n\n\nI say that largely we ARE obsessed with it, because our obsession benefits some very powerful people..\n\nAfter WWII there were a lot of men returning to jobs that had been handled quite well by women while the men were overseas.\n\nA lot of those women didn't like being bounced out of jobs and back into the home; they had experienced a whole new kind of self-respect and pride in working outside the home.\n\nTwo things came out of that discontent; the selling of anti-community competitive ownership among women, and an emphasis on child rearing.  How, after all, were the industry giants going to keep their factories producing goods to be bought, and convince women that they were *happy* staying home (since they did NOT support the idea of women in non-traditional jobs...they wanted to keep the workforce male) without redirecting women's priorities?\n\nAdvertising began to change shortly after WWII.  That is when the kind of advertisement in which one woman wins some sort of "victory" over her neighbors because she has a new appliance began.  This served well to break up the kind of mutually-supportive community that had been growing among women during the war,  it encouraged women to compete with other women *through the buying power of their husbands*, and it also sent a very clear message about a woman's proper place: in the home with the kiddies and all her shiny new gadgets.\n\nAlso, child-rearing started being portrayed as an idealistic, glowy kind of thing with the more kids the merrier, and great emphasis was placed, in marketing, on mothers doing more for their kids.  It wasn't enough to have healthy children any more than it was enough to have a tidy home; child and baby beauty contests really got their start at this time, too, encouraging women to sublimate their self-esteem through their children.  And naturally, the competitiveness that had taken root so well in women over shiny new stuff for the home did well in this arena.  It was pretty overt, actually...for around 15 years after WWII in movies, for example, strong women roles were usually associated with ulterior motives.  Interestingly enough, if you do research into the way that women have been portrayed in American society through time, you'll find that in turn-of-the-century newspapers  successful women in unusual roles were treated admiringly rather than condescendingly.  In post-WWII movies, women wanted babies, and career women were "unnatural" women..\n\nOf course, post-WWII there was a natural reaction to a loosening of the austerity that had been necessary during the war, and there was an economic boom, too, which combined with women moving back into the home as the "norm", meant that a lot of folks had a lot more kids.\n\nWith women hooked into buying (and bearing children, leading to MORE buying) as a path to self-esteem, this fed into the natural competitiveness of men in the workforce... no longer was it enough to provide adequate food and shelter for the family, but now the hubby had to provide his wife with better, newer, shinier *stuff* so that she could feel good about herself by having something "better" than her neighbors and friends.  \n\nWhile there have been periodic rebellions against this kind of consumerism, it hasn't taken hold in a significant way.  it won't, either, because in order for a few to become obscenely wealthy, the rest of us have to stay hooked on the drug of "more, newer, better".  There has to be an artificial hunger for things that corporations produce.\n\nOur artificial hunger for more, newer, better stuff has terrible consequences, ranging from the personal to the political.  Most of us don't care under what conditions the people who produce our gadgets work.  Most of us don'
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I think both sexes suffer the same amount of hard stuff in life because men are suppose to be the providers and fighters, whereas women are suppose to be the nurturers and the makers of life. However, modern society has allowed role-genders to change. More women are in the work force and some men are replacing the "house wife". With these changes, it is still allowing both sexes to feel as if they are suffering some hard times and stuggles.
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Thats a good question and you are certainly NOT a freak for asking it! I certainly think there is more to it than the 'powers that be' would like us to think. It is ALWAYS healthy to ask questions of those who govern/control, otherwise we become ignorant sheep.
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the con census among the ladies here seems to be one of division. some want the guys to act like cave men (so they can secretly complain about it right?) and the other half want us to show our emotions (so they can secretly complain about it right?)\nmaybe all of us fellas should take you gals on the same emotional rollercoaster you take us on and, give you equal doses of both....randomly, so as to upset and confuse you so you'd know what it's like to live with you. HAH!!!
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Men were always taught to be the protectors of women. So to protect them they have to work.  With NOW maybe that will change.
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women like you are the reason there is war in the world. the friend should have hiss ass kicked as well.
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Yes, it is something that worries a lot of people I am sure.\n\nThe sad fact of the matter is that humans are naturally aggressive creatures. Our society is formed round the notion of the alpha male, or more specifically, the alpha 'country', this can be seen clearly from examples in history, mankind has always sought to gain more and more territory and kill more and more people. \n\nOf course, now the situation worsens, as you mentioned, we now have nuclear war heads to worry about. \n\nThe only thing you can do, and all of us can do, is make it obvious that this is not acceptable behaviour, and that caring and loving people around you is a far more effective way of living in the world. Keep the message alive, and don't fear, us peace loving people may yet save the day!
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Yes we are!! I think it's because they lack respect for women. I think they were raised with "old school" traditions when women "knew there place". They can't handle the fact that women have stepped up to the plate where they have failed miserably. When they encounter problems they whine about it while we deal with it. They resent us.
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That is the NEOCON agenda.  With the collapse of the Soviet Union, some bright men with nothing to do got tired of playing Risk, and graduated to Global Politics.  They concluded that in this power vacuum, it would be a really good idea for the US to assert itself while it had the chance, aiming at a kind of PAX or Power Americana, another name for world domination.  This all happened while we were all asleep, without our being consulted, and we now find ourselves trying to figure out how we got into this mess, the latest being Afghanistan and Iraq.  These guys are for real, and they are plundering along the way.  No one has ever succeeded at this throughout history, but they are giving it another shot,  as they figure by the time anyone catches on, they will be set and on their private island some where.  It is always the general population that has to suffer these guys, paying in blood, destruction, and chaos.  No one ever believes this can be until it is way too late.  The "big lie" has been used over and over for a very long time to cover this behavior up, and no matter how many times it is used, they always seem to initially get away with it.  They say if you don't know history you are doomed to repeat it, and here we are again.  That must be why we don't teach real history in our schools, so this kind of thing can happen.
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Winki Pinki must be at that time of the month so just ignore her. Anyway, to answer your question, war is much needed sometimes but when in comes to the war in Iraq, I tooootally agree with you. They have no inclination of whats going on in the world, look at Rummy how he said France and Germany reminds him of "Old Europe", what a jerk to say suh a thing like that. They are our allies for God sake and not our bitch whores. They have a right to an opinion. This administration has no morals and rides the wave of shoving freedom down everyones throats. Thats why the world has indigestion now and its time to throw out the Necon clan from America.
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war is not new.. and neither is the nazi idea of war.  the thirst for power will certainly always remain in the human mindset, and we will always have a need to keep that in check.
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We already dominate the world. The world is jealous of our hard working successful society.\n\nWe have sacrificed our sons and daughters countless times to help stabilize the world. And we have spent vast fortunes to rebuild our enemies homelands and protect their liberty and freedom. Even when they have tried in vain to take ours away.\n\nWhen America goes to war it is for a damn good reason. Period.
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It would be a great idea but it will never happen! The same as the rest of us being given the nuclear shelters the government have to save them in time of a nuclear attack!! It's as though they think themselves a superior race.... Apparantly it's 'because we need leaders in the event of a nuclear war' (So nothing to do with them being 'chicken sh*ts who'll run for cover at the first sign of attack then)!!\nCan you imagine the aftermath of such an attack......you survive and you along with a few other people and have to procreate to save mankind, but the only women available are, Cherie Blair, Margaret Beckett and Camilla? Gross!....I think I'd have to shoot myself!! Sorry mankind....there is such a thing as asking too much of someone!!