Two Administrations In One
January 23rd, 2013 - 3:08 pm
“Just a couple minutes ago, presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett, who is personally close to President Barack Obama, tweeted, that ‘If there’s one thing we should all agree on, it’s protecting women from violence,’” notes the Weekly Standard, which adds, “Jarrett’s tweet comes the same hour Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the Obama administration would allow women to serve in combat.”
As Allahpundit asks (and answers) at Hot Air, what could go wrong?
(And as always, life — or at least this administration — imitates the earlier, funnier seasons of Saturday Night Live.)
I just hope first female BUDS graduate looks like Demi Moore in a wet t-shirt.
Why just women? Why not men and children too?
As an Iraq vet, let me just extend my own unqualified support for this measure, predicated of course on adoption of the following three amendments to the Panetta Doctrine:
1) All US females over 18 years of age must now register with Selective Service on penalty of law.
2) All future military drafts take into account the fact that males have disproportionately bore the burden of being drafted throughout American’s history and in the spirit of gender equality all future military drafts be exclusively be drawn from the nation’s pool of women until such time as an equal balance vis-a-vis the number of men drafted in past wars is reached.
3) All Baby Boom cohort females who would have been of age to serve militarily during Vietnam, starting with the ones documented to have agitated for women in combat, be retroactively drafted and sent to Afghanistan/Mali/Syria with all the good faith support and due diligence currently being given their male counterparts by this administration. Such draftees will be given only weapons and ammunition magazines that meet or exceed full complience with Obama’s post-Newtown directives.
When these three conditions are met (as well as repeal of the sexist George W. Bush laws regulating gravity and upper body strength physics), I will heartily endorse the new Panetta F/o/l/l/y/ Doctrine.