"Why does the United States send the mothers of infants and toddlers off to fight a foreign war?" Allan Carlson
asks.
Make no mistake: We are the exception here. In the whole sweep of human history, no other nation - not Soviet Russia, nor the Iraqi Baathists, nor the egalitarian Scandinavians - has intentionally placed young mothers in harm's way such as American military planners have done in Iraq.
The strong and normal human instinct is to protect infants, toddlers and their mothers. Indeed, their well-being and security form the central purposes of every healthy nation. From the smallest tribe to the greatest empire, the human rule has been that all others must sacrifice, and even die, to protect the mothers of the young, for they are a people's future.
"A nation which defends herself with women in combat," Douglas Wilson
writes, "no longer deserves to be defended."
"Why does the United States send the mothers of infants and toddlers off to fight a foreign war?" Allan Carlson asks.