The troop’s ARE the TROOPS…
They come in all sizes , shapes and they ARE woman and Men….
And that’s fine with bosses at the Pentagon, Thank You….
Women have and will continue to lead the troops….
Now as General’s….
Carlson?
Hold your comments…..
Fox News host Tucker Carlson found himself under attack by U.S. military bigwigs following comments he made on his right-wing cable program calling China’s military “more masculine” than that of the U.S.
Speaking about President Biden’s Monday nomination to make two four-star female generals to lead a combatant command, which has only happened once before, the prime-time pundit went on a rant about women who serve their country.
“So, we’ve got new hairstyles and maternity flight suits. Pregnant women are going to fight our wars. It’s a mockery of the U.S. military,” Carlson said….
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The defense of women in the military came fast, furious and straight from the top. That included a statement from the U.S. Department of Defense.
“What we absolutely won’t do is take personnel advice from a talk show host or the Chinese military,” said the statement, quoting Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby.
Kirby had earlier stated diversity in the military makes U.S. armed forces bigger and better and suggested people who take issue with inclusion “feel like they have something to prove, that’s on them.”
Carlson responded on Twitter as though he were the victim and promised a rebuttal on his Thursday night program….
“…given Mr. Carlsons reputation ,any reasonable viewer arrives with an appropriate amount of skepticism about the statements he makes.”
US District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil
Agreeing with Fox News Attorneys in dismissing a lawsuit against the entertainer.
Perhaps so, but the majority of conservatives that watch Tucker Carlson are not “reasonable viewers”.
That’s true.
Fox News is the WWE of news.
It is News/Entertainment.
Fox News viewers are much more interested in being “entertained” than actual News.
Carlson is mentioned as a prospective Trump Party presidential candidate in 2024.
He, he, he..z
Did the judge say that the Fox talking head talks bull shit?
For the record?
Besides all this, I recollect (perhaps wrongly) that the People’s Liberation Army was decades ahead of the U.S. Defense Dept in recruiting, employing and making use of female soldiers and technicians — not necessarily that odd considering what women did under Mao & Deng in the Sino-Japanese and Chinese Civil Wars. (However, I don’t know how high a rank the most senior woman held.)
So why would the Chinese laugh at female commanders in the U.S. military ?
Never hurts to check what you’ve just written (even better to check first !!)
While women served in prominent positions in the Chinese Communist forces before roughly 1950, their current position seems to be analogous to women in the U.S. military about 1965-70 — almost entirely within non-combatant roles such as nursing and medicine. On the other hand the P.L.A. has no fewer than eight female major-generals.
This writer suggests that women were demobilized or sidelined when the P.L.A. reorganized and professionalized along the lines of the Soviet Red Army. Now, she says, the P.L.A. is modelling itself more along American lines than Russian ones.
[Tucker Carlson is still selling baloney as he tries to stay “provocative” by pandering to his listeners’ existing biases and expectations.]
https://www.socialstudies.org/sites/default/files/publications/se/5802/580201.html
Sounds like me DSD….