Cruz: Don’t Send Our Daughters to Fight a 200-Pound Jihadist [+video]

“I don’t think we outght to be forcibly drafting women, particularly putting them in a position where they’re in combat. I don’t think that makes sense; I don’t think it’s beneficial to the military,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told Fox News’s “The Kelly File” Wednesday night.

Forcibly drafting women risks putting them “in an unfair situation,” Cruz said.

“If you’re looking at close combat, for example, if you’re dealing with a 200-pound jihadist, the idea that we will forcibly take our daughters and put them in a position where they could be in close combat, I don’t think that makes sense, and it’s not recognizing the realities of combat.

Cruz pointed to recent studies by the Marines that found putting women in combat ended up increasing casualties among both women and men.

“It decreases military effectiveness,” he said. “And the job of our war fighters is to defeat the enemy. It’s not to be this cauldron for social experiments and political correctness. It is to keep America safe.” (Read more from “Cruz: Don’t Send Our Daughters to Fight a 200-Pound Jihadist” HERE)

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