Ron Paul on Women In Combat: An Issue of Rights?

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced recently that all military jobs, including the most dangerous combat roles, would be open to women starting next April. The announcement added new life to a lawsuit seeking to expand mandatory Selective Service registration to women as well as men who reach the age of 18. The military draft is a form of slavery. Seeking to extend it to women because one feels it is discriminatory if it applies only to men is a case of faulty logic. In a real threat to the United States, likely every able body would defend their homeland. A draft only seeks to add cannon fodder to the imperial foreign policy of the warmongering neocons. The problem is the foreign policy, not a lack of fighters to carry it out. More on women in combat and the draft in today’s Liberty Report:

Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.

9 thoughts on “Ron Paul on Women In Combat: An Issue of Rights?”

  1. If we lived in anything resembling a normal country, I would agree with Dr. Paul. However, our deteriorating Empire has become more warlike than ever. All it takes is days of wall to wall coverage of extremist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino for the US couch potatoes to panic and call for more useless bombing. However, the draft did play a major part in ending the Vietnam War. If the sons and daughters of middle and upper class people were being drafted today, they would not be so quick to sacrifice their children.

    BTW, if 19 year-old girls were being drafted, I could envision thousands of angry parents saying HELL NO, you are not drafting my daughter to get raped and die. Any country that thinks women should be drafted to fight in combat alongside men has lost its marbles and become a nation of wimps.

  2. Though I'm a big Ron Paul supporter – I haven't seen him campaign AGAINST the draft. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I agree the draft shouldn't be in place. The fact that it is and is solely directed at males is sexist to say the least. Yet I haven't seen much opposition to the issue from politicians.

    1. Joe- during his second tenure in Congress, Dr. Paul had a bill to defund the Selective Service system, a bill he frequently promoted. He also wrote widely-published articles comparing the draft to involuntary servitude. So I think it is fair to say he actively and openly opposed the draft while in Congress.

  3. Women should have every right to serve there country in combat but everyone should have every right to abstain from combat and that includes enlisted troops who signed up to protect America and not Chevron.

    Ban the draft and Ban stop-loss! Emancipate America!!

  4. Ahem, So the Constitution and its amendments are now faulty logic?
    "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."

    Faulty Logic? I take it you have none , and probably didn't sign up for selective service either, and more than a certainty never served either.

  5. Christo, Please correct me if I am wrong, but is "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." from the Equal Rights amendment, which was not ratified by congress? And though you comment was directed at the author of the post, he was summarizing the video. It appears Ron Paul was drafted and served.

    Joe, Ron Paul has been consistent in his opposition to the draft as long as I have been aware of his views. I don't recall it being a often cited plank of his platform, but he often speaks against the draft.

  6. Re: "…Ron Paul on Women In Combat: An Issue of Rights?"

    My 'Most K.I.A.', per single response, (as a career_paramedic), was the 'Happy Lands' arson_homicide; I responded, ('1st. due'…), with a female partner, and wouldn't have had it ANY other way!

    Thus…
    I merely laugh, sarcastically, at ALL this, 'women, in combat…' / 'women cannot be priests, etc….' sexism!! What an absolute waste of, (slightly, over 50%…), of Earth's Hominid_Resources!

    If the next war IS absolutely, necessary / cannot be avoided, despite serial_diplomatic_failure(s)…
    ALL adult citizens, (including the Bush… / Chaney… / Romney… / Blair…'N Clinton…'crotch_fruit'!!), MUST be available, aka, remove that 'Yellow_Stripe, affixed'…to their thoracic_vertebrae!!

    If, on the other hand…
    The, (current and/or, next…), 'war' is merely another, in this 'never, ending series', of 'corporate_
    profiteering' scams, with / without 'plausible, deniability', like Vietnam, 'Iraq, L.L.C.', (Iraq's / Afghanistan's / Pakistan's alleged N.-W.M.D.'s / W.M.D.'s / other unsubstantiated 'National_Security' excuses), etc., then…

    Let's trundle these cowardly, (often, allegedly…'Pro_Life_Xian'), war_makers_by_proxy, off to the nearest 'Super_Max' prison, like the Unibomber, various Jihadi-Wannabes, Erich 'cop_killer / nurse_maimer' Rudolph, Scott '50-to-life' Roeder…
    Where they belong!!

    {BTW: I LOST between 359-400+ coworkers, (11.Sept.'01…N.Y.C.). The number is…unsettled, as I've, since had the hair-raising-experience of encountering 1-2 individuals I thought vaporized, per 'superficial monotheist piety', by…M. Atta / his apostate_associates}…

  7. Though I'm a big Ron Paul supporter – I haven't seen him campaign AGAINST the draft. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I agree the draft shouldn't be in place. The fact that it is and is solely directed at males is sexist to say the least. Yet I haven't seen much opposition to the issue from politicians.

  8. Joe, Ron Paul has been consistent in his opposition to the draft as long as I have been aware of his views. I don't recall it being a often cited plank of his platform, but he often speaks against the draft.
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