Women in Combat

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/life/study-says-female-soldiers-are-as-resilient-as-men-when-it-comes-to-combat-related-stress-2495589/

Just read the above article about women in the military being allowed in combat positions.

Women have always been part of wars. As casualties/victims. It has always thrown me when men talk about women not being able to cope with war as the ones with the weapons. It would seem to me that being able to defend yourself and others would actually be better than what women have now.
For thousands of years women and children have had to deal with one side of war the victim side. Rape and pillage. With no way of fighting back and in fact a culture that looks down on fighting back unless your a man. Women deal with as much as men do and to say that women cannot deal with combat situations (when many men have a hard time dealing with it and are still allowed to do so) is ridiculous and archaic. Not even archaic because women have had to be strong to deal with the effects of war that have always been forced upon them.

And that's My 25 cents...