Nope, says the heavy-metal-ex-wife-sounding Jane Chastain. It's because the media's mad that Lynch contradicts their feminist model of "women can be soldiers just like men."
Why did the press give the West Virginia beauty the cold shoulder this time around? She didn't follow the script that had been carefully crafted of her capture on March 23, 2003, after her Army maintenance company lost its way and was ambushed by the enemy. She didn't toe the radical feminist line of "I am a warrior, hear me roar!"
Um... ok?
Unfortunately, Jessica is either misinformed or she misspeaks when she blames the fabrication of her story on the Pentagon. Who was the "unnamed" U.S. official who gave the story to the Washington Post? That tag could fit hundreds of people. The military is awash with feminists anxious to prove that men and women are interchangeable fungibles.
That's right, any propagandizing of Lynch was clearly motivated by feminists, not warmongering patriotism-whore hawks. Got it?
When Jessica emerged from her trying ordeal, she unknowingly stepped into the middle of the debate over women in combat, and, by refusing to play the warrior role, she unwillingly poked her finger in the eye of the mainstream media, which seems hellbent on selling us on this notion. Yes, she can write a letter to Diane Sawyer or a network news organization and it will be read, but she isn't likely to get more airtime because she is considered no longer useful.
Yeah, except of course for that time she was interviewed by Diane Sawyer, way back at the HEIGHT of her popularity and where, incidentally, she blamed the military for making up details about her story. But never mind that, because those two gals were wearing pants and weren't at home baking cookies between pregnancies, so they really couldn't have anything useful to say in the first place, right?
Jessica was never a war hero. She is no longer a media hero. However, if she will go to the Center for Military Readiness and do some research on this issue of women in combat, she could use her position to wake up America and be a hero to all clear thinkers who don't wish to see enlisted women used as cannon fodder just so a few female officers can make it to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
It may not be fair that the average man is six inches taller, 50 pounds heavier and has 42 percent more upper body strength than the average woman, but it is reality. There are many things women can do better than men, but being a warrior is not one of them!
Except that the military doesn't ban skinny short dudes from serving in combat. But never mind, since this strawman really doesn't have much to do with Lynch in the first place.
While I'm sure Rush Limbaugh would agree with Chastain's assessment, I'm not so sure anyone else does. Also, sorry to harsh Chastain's buzz, but while the "mainstream" media was definitely complicit in swallowing the White House's crap, it's not like liberals haven't been poking holes in the Lynch stuff before now (usually resulting in attacks from conservatives, a-la the Tillman case). To be fair, some conservatives and libertarians were, too, as were some in the media itself. Doesn't this sort of disprove Chastain's "the media promoted Lynch for feminism's sake" argument? As does this recent editorial in the NY Times by a former military honcho who blames GOVERNMENT, not the military, and incidentally, not the media (where exactly does the Pentagon fall in this case?) for inflating the Lynch story.
Interesting side-point- Chastain isn't alone in opposing women being in combat. Check out this article from LewRockwell.com. All the talk of how sending women to fight is unAmerican and unChristian made me chuckle.
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