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I'm Anderson Cooper, welcome to podcast, the feelings, in facts about lifting the ban on women in combat, aslo the ridiculous. Let's get started.
Tonight, how politicians who oppose women serving in combat, reconcile their position, with the facts about women serving in combat, you can hear for yourself and you can decide for yourself.
Today Defense1 Secretary Leon Panetta announced the military will let women serve in frontline combat unit, including infantry2, armour3, artillery4, even potentially special forces.
"Our nation was built on the premise5 of the citizen soldier, and our democracy, I believed it is the responsibility of every citizen to protect the nation."
Well, the policy came together after more than a year's effort by Secretary Panetta and Joint6 Chiefs Chairman Martin Demspey. With the heads of each service signing off, the branches will have until May to submit plans for intergrating women. They are also be able to make the case that certain specialties7 should not be opened to women's speical forces, for instance, now earlier reaction, was mixed. Ryan Smith, a retired8 marine9 infantry man, said the men and women side by side in combat would be distracting, awkward and harmful to unit cohesion10.
"Combat is a very hard game, I think people are being awfully11 cavalier about this restriction12 being lifted. You know, combat is a life or death game, and if we get this wrong, the loser dies."
Republican Senate James Inhole sounded alarm bells as well, warning that the Congress might have to put brakes on the idea. And social conservative groups, such as the Family Research Council also weighed in against the idea. The FRC asking on its home page tonight, how much National Security is our president willing to forego to promote this kind of progressive familism.
"Keep them honest", though, not every conservatives feels this way, House Armed Services Chairman Buck13 McKeon for one said he welcomed today's announcement. In addition, people on both sides of the aisle14 acknowledge the idea of women in Combat is totally normal if you speak German or Hebrew, Dutch, French, Finnish, Polish. The arm forces in all those countries, plus Canada, Australia, Romania, Norway and Sweden allow women in combat units. In addition, there is an inescapable fact in the modern warfare15, the frontline can be blurry16, meaning troops in nominally17 non-combat roles can wind up in combat.
"In fact, in 2003, when I got to the Bagdad, as the commander of the 1st Armored Division, my first foray out of the forward operating base, I hopped18 into the up-armored Humvee, and I asked the driver, you know who he was, where he was from? I slapped the turret19 gunner on the leg, and I said, who're you? She leaned down and said, "I'm Amanda." I said,"OK".
And there was Tammy, Lieutenant20 Colonel Tammy Duckworth lost her legs from RPG fire piloting a Black Hawk21 chopper in Iraq. Now Congresswoman Ducthworth looks at today's decision and sees it a part of the long tradition of reform and resistance.
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1 defense | |
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩 | |
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n.[总称]步兵(部队) | |
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(=armor)n.盔甲;装甲部队 | |
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n.(军)火炮,大炮;炮兵(部队) | |
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5 premise | |
n.前提;v.提论,预述 | |
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adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合 | |
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7 specialties | |
n.专门,特性,特别;专业( specialty的名词复数 );特性;特制品;盖印的契约 | |
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8 retired | |
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9 marine | |
adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵 | |
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10 cohesion | |
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11 awfully | |
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12 restriction | |
n.限制,约束 | |
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13 buck | |
n.雄鹿,雄兔;v.马离地跳跃 | |
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n.(教堂、教室、戏院等里的)过道,通道 | |
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15 warfare | |
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16 blurry | |
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17 nominally | |
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18 hopped | |
跳上[下]( hop的过去式和过去分词 ); 单足蹦跳; 齐足(或双足)跳行; 摘葎草花 | |
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19 turret | |
n.塔楼,角塔 | |
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20 lieutenant | |
n.陆军中尉,海军上尉;代理官员,副职官员 | |
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21 hawk | |
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