The ridiculous spectacle of rescued POW Pfc. Jessica Lynch, the feisty, ballyhooed warrior of the Army's 507th Maintenance Company, which was butchered early on in Iraq, occasioned the usual war whoops. Yet no one asked a simple question: What in heaven’s name was a hundred-pound girl, barely out of pigtails and high school, doing in a combat zone? The more cosmic abstraction of woman in combat evokes little if any debate these days, and what little debate we hear isn’t loud enough. Other women have been killed and captured, including at least one single mother, and it’s all just part … Continue reading What Kind Of Nation Sends Women Into Combat?