Hattip to Matt Archbold at Creative Minority Report. The United States Army has a long and proud history of defending this country, often engaged in combat in the most deadly situations imaginable against very tough adversaries. I was proud in my misspent youth to wear Army green for a few years. Today the Army finds itself facing severe financial cuts from the Obama administration, troop strength is at its lowest ebb since the Fifties, and it is entirely possible that a war with Iran might occur anytime this year. Not to worry! The Army has time for this:
Nothing I could possibly say is half so apropos as what was said by Hilaire Belloc long ago:
We sit by and watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond: and on these faces there is no smile.
“Theirs not to question why, . . . “
The fool says in his heart, there is no God.
Would’ve thought the big guy who appeared to be the focus of the clip hardly needed to wear an artificial belley and boobs. 🙂
But seriously, why would a pregnant woman want to be in training for combat?
Some thinking here is seriously deranged.
Bingo Don! Most men are ill-suited for combat, let alone a pregnant woman. Madness, sheer madness.
‘Why would a pregnant woman want to be training for combat?’ is not the right question. It presumes that the only relevant factor is the woman’s desire.
The better question is ‘why would the Army want to be training pregnant women for combat?’ the answer is probably: they don’t want to, but they are doing it anyway.