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Originally posted by KappaKittyCat
Israel has three years of mandatory military service for all 18-year-olds, men and women.
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Our son spent a few weeks at the Tasis American School outside London the summer between his Freshman and Sophomore years in High School. He met a pair of female Israeli twins there he has kept in touch with via e-mail. They are both now in the Israeli Defense Forces.
I'm not real sure how I feel about the issue and raised it just to hear everyone's reaction. To be honest, I thought a lot of the women who are outspoken about gender equality would comment. I'm surprized they didn't.
There are a lot of non-combatant jobs in the Armed Forces, and I think it would be possible to draft women for those jobs and keep them out of harms way.
Again, I hope it's a moot point, because I certainly hope we don't get into a protracted land campaign in the Middle-East. I dont sense the support in the country or Congress for that. One of the things we should have learned in our Vietnam experience is that it is most difficult to win without that support, and almost impossible to win when campaigns are micro-managed by politicians who do not let the professional military officers do their jobs.