Flirting with the Absurd

From the AP:

WASHINGTON — A military advisory commission is recommending that the Pentagon do away with a policy that bans women from serving in combat units, breathing new life into a long-simmering debate.

Though thousands of women have been involved in the fights in Iraq and Afghanistan, they have done so while serving in combat support roles — as medics, logistics officers and so on — because defense policy prohibits women from being assigned to any unit smaller than a brigade whose primary mission is direct combat on the ground. On Friday, a special panel was meeting to polish the final draft of a report that recommends the policy be eliminated "to create a level playing field for all qualified service members."

"A level playing field for all qualified service members." I'm not sure what that is supposed to mean.

I tend to agree with Margaret Thatcher when, in her book, Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, she says something along the lines of, "A woman is better at wielding the handbag than the rifle." When will this egalitarian nonsense stop? Newsflash: men and women are different. Men, by and large, are much stronger than women thus making them naturally better suited for combat units. Biology has no "level playing field". Do we start making weapons lighter, training less strenuous? When does the incessant push for equality in everything, even in light of serious, unalterable differences, become absurd? Anyone interested in learning more about this should pick up Thatcher's excellent book. She writes with great lucidity and at some about women in combat roles.