Blog 21 : Sisters in arms

      In the article "Sisters in Arms" the author James Dao writes about the long ban of not letting women fight in combat and how it is now being lifted. Women are now allowed to go in and fight for America. But will this help?
     Women have helped in the war before. In the article Stacy Persall who is the Staff Sargent helped a fallen soldier in the war. He base was attacked and everybody who was there went out to go and fight. Stacy didnt sit around waiting for help, she got up and got on a machine gun and started firing.
     As she was shooting she realized a man near by her. He was 6'2 and over 200 pounds the man is much bigger than her but she still dragged him to safety.
     It's women like this that make more people realize the importance of women today. She isn't the only woman that did something great in the war that a man could do. About 300,000 women have been in Iraq doing jobs such as medical assistance, military police officers, and many more. So now it's about time women can go inside and fight.
      It's not only the war that is allowing women to fight in wars, in the Navy, The Army and the Air Force Mariens are letting women serve. On May 15th they make their final decison. There will be 200,000 jobs open with this ban of women now being lifted.
     The article reads "The pentagon has vowed that standards will not be lowered to make it easier for women to join combat." Women have to take on the full course of the war. Unlike the army that allows women to pass tests by giving them less push-ups and allowing the to run slower than the men.
     Letting these women fight is a great thing because there are only so many men that can do the job or pass the test. Before women were not allowed to fight, they can do the same thing as men and thats what many people don't understand but now people will realize the greatnesss of the woman.
     The people who final made the choice to allow women to fight in combat were afraid that Americans would react to it horribly. They believed that people would be protesting talking about how these are women and that they are mothers and they are not strong enough. But people are not taking it that far. They treat the women's injuries such as they treat the men's.
     Infact, people are happily appluding women and agree that it is good to have the ban finally lifted.
     Former U.S. Marine Corps officer, Greg Jacob supports the change, he states "When military goes to full intergration, it allows commanders to put the best person in the job, not just the man. If the best shot in the platoon is a woman, I can make her a sniper. But until now, I couldn't do that."
     People question the physical strenght of women because of the challanging things they have to carry daily such ass packs weighing up to 100 pounds.
     Women can do the same things as men because women have been doing it since 1861 in the Civil War. Were many women have been dressing as men to fight in combat when the thought of letting women fight in wars was not even a consideration.
     People are though wondering if the war is going to be helped. Sergeant Pearshall says that his answer is simple "Yes, women can do it, and she already has."
      And he is right women can. The war is going to have lots of help with womenn in thier and having women is going to prove how dominate we as women can be.

Cyber- War

In the article "Cyber War" written by Patricia Smith she talks about how invaders from Saudi Arabia and America go back and forth sending viruses to each other to affect each other’s government systems.
She shows that there isn't much a war with guns and weapons, that normal people can send you virus's in computer's and mess things up for America. In the future there won’t be more fighting, the people hacking America can hurt more American's in different ways.
On August 15 an attack happened by hackers going into Saudi Arabia's computers. On that day, about 55,000 people were home preparing for a Muslim holiday when hackers sent out a virus. The virus erased 75% of Aramco's factory data.
This practically started the whole cyber war between America and other top countries.
Richard Clarke who was a White House counterterrorism official said "It proved you don’t have to be sophisticated to do a lot of damage; there are lots of targets in the U.S. where they could do the same thing. The attacks were intended to say: 'If you mess with us, you can expect retaliation.' "
Richard is right. Almost anybody can create a virus and send it in an email or something you don’t have to be a top scientist to affect somebody's computer system. The viruses sent to Saudi Arabia and other places are more high tech than an ordinary person's virus. But a virus can be made by anybody is the point.
The U.S. becomes more vulnerable to these viruses with so much social network and kids doing so many things on computers now days. This has Washington worried about more cyber wars.
Leon Panetta, a Defense Secretary, states that the U.S. "might be facing a possibility of 'cyber war'."
Computers aren't just infected with viruses on a holiday and Saudi Arabia isn’t the only place that sends attacks. China and Iran are also two of America's biggest sources of cyberwaring.
China sends attacks daily to America. Trying to steal Pentagon and corporate secrets, not trying to harm anybody. Iran is trying to hurt America though.
America thinks that Iran is after the attack sent to Saudi Aramco and is behind taking off line internet banks. Such as Wells Fargo, and PNC. Other online banks such as Capitol One and BB&T were interrupted.
One day something really bad is going to happen. Technology is only getting better and the situation will only get worse.
If we are getting so many attacks daily, sending them back is not always going to help. It's only going to make things worse. Maybe the government should try to talk it out with these countries and settle things down. If that doesn't work there are other ways.
War is not the only answer.