Rush Lim­baugh won­ders what it says “about a cul­tured civ­i­lized soci­ety that it will round up babes send them off to basic train­ing and send them off to the foxholes.”

Set aside that the fat junkie skipped out of the ‘Nam because of an unfor­tu­nate cyst, and that we don’t cur­rent­ly round up any­one, sol­diers vol­un­teer to serve (though they do have their terms extend­ed far too long after that). 

Lyn­die Eng­land was not a “babe.” Gen­er­al Karpin­s­ki was not a “babe.” Our fight­ing men are not hunks, and our fight­ing women are not babes.