Ethics – women in military
Ethics
April 3/03 Prisoners of political correctness by Jane Chastain
“Something is terribly wrong when the most powerful country on earth is assigning women service members to units where they are subject to capture, rape, torture and death, while able-bodied men are stationed out of harm’s way or, worse still, at home in the comfort of their living rooms.” (1)
None of their troops should be in the Middle East. But are these the “values” Canadians share with the Peoples’ Republic of America? Exporting mindless political correctness to the four corners of the earth, and obliterating distinctions between genders. Some of us thought Bush was “conservative” and America was so different from “liberal” Canada, but Americans and Canadians are all part of the great global experiment in Social Democracy. Do you have a choice not to be part of it?