OK MR. SMARTY PANTS!

OK MR. SMARTY PANTS!

(Oakland Press/Frazer Chronicle)

So you think you know it all, you think you've got a handle on things, you think you know your country, and it's safe, just and honest.....right? Well my friend, let me point a few things out to you that.....well, maybe you didn't know.

Did you know that women in the military get raped by their fellow soldiers at an alarming rate and that prosecution of the perpetrators lags at an embarrassing rate? I say "an alarming rate" because to me, one case of rape is way too much.

Oh ya, and by the way, I am not in favor of women serving on the front lines in hot military regions, it makes absolutely no sense to me when we have enough men to do that job. Call me old fashioned, but I come from an era of WAVES and WACS, those good looking women who served their country in the military, but in areas that were safe for them, both from the enemy and the "friendlies."

The United States military is.....and has long been a club for "good old boys," those "Arctic men" from long ago that made war, drank bourbon, smoked their stogies and "took" their occasional woman. It is a mentality grown through centuries of war, plunder, and an ideology of peace through power.

These men, the generals of the world's military, somewhere along the line didn't get the fact that people really, really don't need war to get along, that the economies of the globe really can produce enough "stuff" for us to survive.

The really funny part of the military’s "standard operating procedure" regarding sexual crimes is that all crime reports are to the victim’s boss, or commander, which in many cases is and also can be the perpetrator. If the person goes over her commander's head, it's to her commander’s boss.....and those two men already have a professional relationship.

Sexual misbehavior isn't new in the military, it's been going on for decades, it's been going on ever since women were granted entrance into the military in any capacity. Before women were in the military, soldiers ravaged women wherever they went. It's what they call "rape and pillage."

The mentality of men "having their way" spills over into U.S. government as well.....unless you figure that government has the right to screen a women's uterus with a pre-abortion ultrasound. I for one do not want anybody probing "down there" unless there is consent by the women.

Muslims have long treated their women with utter disrespect, keeping them "down on the farm" as it were. I had a mother; I have 3 sisters, a wife, 2 daughters, and a son. I know from personal experience that behind every good man is a great woman. I know that women can do any job that any man can do.....if a woman chooses to do that job.

Most women accept their roles in the world; the key word is accept, many women know that they could do more, but that their men and their fragile feelings need to be "patted". I say "God bless them all." We need to put women on a high place, because they have the true power.