Who is Kathleen Parker, and what century is she living in?<\/p>\n
A column in the Washington Post:<\/p>\n
On any given day, one isn’t likely to find common cause with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He’s a dangerous, lying, Holocaust- denying, Jew-hating cutthroat thug — not to put too fine a point on it.<\/p>\n
\nBut he was dead-on when he wondered why a once-great power such as Britain sends mothers of toddlers to fight its battles.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Why, because toddlers don’t have fathers?<\/p>\n
She dismissed the effectiveness of women in combat:<\/p>\n
Women may be able to push buttons as well as men can, but the door-to-door combat in Fallujah proved the irrelevance of that argument. Meanwhile, no one can look at photos of the 15 British marines and sailors and argue convincingly that the British navy is stronger for the presence of Acting Leading Seaman Faye Turney — no matter how lovely and brave she may be.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n