Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.
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