NahnCee, far less than 50% of our military is female, and most females don’t leave “the wire.” They hold jobs that don’t require it.

Ash, I agree that the military is doing some things that we are not necessarily the best suited for; but we get shot at sometimes and they send very few people downrange who are not soldiers to be shot at. It happens, but it is a tiny number.

Oh, NahnCee… to vote for a candidate simply to piss off Afghan peasants isn’t what I would call the best decision-making process, but hey; it’s your vote.

The governor of Bamyan Province, Afghanistan, is a woman. In one of the more remote areas of Afghanistan, one of the Provincial Council members with a fair amount of clout was a woman. In Kapisa Province, one of the international community representatives was a Polish female. She did not wear a burqa, but she covered her head (not her face) with a scarf in the manner of Muslim women to respect their culture.