Another group of women are assigned to meet soldiers" immediate sexual needs, as camp followers and prostitutes." This is a good argument but she has no source of credibility. She doesn't state where she found this information, and doesn't cover any possible counter argument for the opposing side. Without this, her statement is almost useless. Cynthia Dunbar has a similar argument in her essay, but she has credibility, and covers the counter argument. In her Essay she has a quote from Gen. Barrow in his testimony before congress stating, "I may be old fashioned, but I think the very nature of women disqualifies them from doing it. Women give life. Sustain life. Nurture life. They don't take it." She then goes on to defend this saying, " Similar vague arguments were made not too long ago when African-Americans in the U.S. military were not allowed to go into fight training because it was simply assumed that they were not intelligent enough or that they had poorer night vision than whites. President Harry Truman put an end to this discrimination when he integrated combat units in 1948." By doing this, she basically destroyed the first argument made towards women not being able to fight in the military. It makes her viewpoints very strong. .
One example where Carter does use sources and credibility, but still no counter argument is when she once again talks about the rape issue in war. She says, " And rape and sexual harassment provide special problems for women in the armed services. Women in war zones are vulnerable not only to rape by the enemy, but by the soldiers on their own side." Her support for this statement comes in when she says; "Horrific examples of this from the Vietnam War have been documented by the Australian author Siobhan McHugh in Minefields and Miniskirts." Another way she tries to prove this is by talking about the "Tail hook Scandal." She says, "The entry of women will not easily transform the military services.
