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From: "Vern Humphrey" 
Reply-To: r_catholic-l{at}yahoogroups.com

To: seanmbrook{at}aol.com [mailto:seanmbrook{at}aol.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 10:43 PM
> >
> > VH> Yes. I would have launched a general air attack -- hitting
> many targets
> > at
> > the same time (after all, the seizure of an embassy IS an act of war.)
>
>  Good. And, yes, seizing an embassy is an act
>  of war.

And we should have treated it as such.

This is an example of want I mean about "organizational
morality."  A man may turn the other cheek.  A president may not.
>
>
>  Hmmm, it would have been sweet if the US had
>  nabbed that murderous thug Khomeini!

Him, we would have kept and not admitted we had him.
>
> > VH> And one to take over the mission of either of the others,
> should the
> > need
> > arise
> >
>  Iow, a RESERVE.

ALWAYS have a reserve.  When you commit the reserve, reconstitute it.
>
> > VH> Even moreso was the qualitative factor based on the highly
> trained and
> > proficient US forces.  No other nation can match us in quality.
> >
>  For now, yes.  But will we keep that edge forever?
>  No law of nature forbids other nations from building
>  armed forces as good as ours.

Our enemies are prisoners of the second differential.  Not only are we
ahead of them (basic equation) and moving faster (first differential) but
we are accelerating at a higher rate.
>
>  Now, think of how DIFFERENTLY the war might have
>  turned out if we had faced WW II Japanese soldiers with
>  modern arms.

Oh, yes.  Had they had a truly modern combined arms army, things would have
been much tougher.

But then they wouldn't have been Japanese -- that is, the Code of Bushido
didn't shape them that way.
>
>  Isn't it a bad sign that women are now in the military?
>  I've read a recent article in NATIONAL REVIEW ("An
>  Army of Jessicas") arguing that the biggest fear of males
>  in the military is being shown to be cowards.  So, many
>  men will be esp. daring to guard against that.  But, the
>  author says women tend to AVOID danger.  The con-
>  clusion she drew is that the feminization of the US
>  military will make it less effective.  Any comments?
>
There ARE problems.  One is that standards are changed for women.  Physical
tests are sex-normed, for example.  And political pressure has resulted in
putting women in positions they really aren't qualified for -- for example,
Kathleen Hulgren, the first Navy fighter pilot, who crashed her plane.
>


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