Tom’s Big Picture

Apparently they can’t pay their bills to Russia for nuclear fuel, but they did figure out a great PR stunt.  Sadly, I find myself agreeing with a small part of his statement:

He had criticised Britain for deploying Mrs Turney, mother of a three-year-old daughter, to the Gulf.

“Why was the difficult task of searching the seas given to a mother thousands of miles from home?” he demanded.

“Why is there no respect for motherhood, for the love of her child? How can you justify seeing a mother away from her home, her children? Why don’t they respect family values in the West?”

I’m friends with a lot of pro-Bush Republican people (and technically speaking, I’m a Republican as well, though I despise the cowardice of most Republican leaders).  There’s almost a mythical worship of all things military among these folks, and I guess a big gaping hole in most social conservatives’ agendas is this issue of women in the military.

Maybe it’s a dead duck politically, but there’s something wrong with a civilization that sends women to fight.  As Al Mohler has said, the future belongs to the fundamentalist “extremists”.  They’re the only ones having babies.  We in the West had better develop a fundamentalism of our own to counter that of Islam.