Women in combat

It must be a cold day in hell. Because that’s what I always said about agreeing with anything Robert Scheer would ever write. Well, I’m shivering today. His cogent comments concerning the Jessica Lynch imbroglio were right on target (“A Soldier’s Dignity and Humility,” Nov. 12).

His questioning, though, of how the author of “I Am a Soldier, Too” could not express the slightest curiosity of how such blatant propaganda came to be accepted or understanding how these lies were used to manipulate an “ostensibly free press in a free society” is a bit ingenuous. It shows, unfortunately, that Scheer does not understand the insidious power political correctness exerts in today’s society.

The Department of Defense, pressured for years by the “Women’s Rights” mantra that “women are equal to men in combat,” needed a poster child to shore up that specious philosophy. The media went right along by creating a G.I. Jane equivalent to Johnny Rambo.

The harsh reality is that when you place women like Lynch’s buddy, a married woman with two kids, and youngsters like Lynch in harm’s way, they are going to be taken as POWs, killed, wounded and even raped. There is no amount of propaganda that can alter that fact.

Joseph A. Lea

Mission Viejo

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PARDON my skepticism, but would notorious Bush-basher Robert Scheer have been so eager to review, and rave about, Jessica Lynch’s memoir if she hadn’t questioned America’s invasion of Iraq? For that matter, would he have gotten the assignment in the first place?

Burt Prelutsky

North Hills