Would a Woman Running the United States End Useless Wars?

[thomhartmann]

Out of nearly 200 countries, only 59 have had or have women as leaders, further many of those are not war mongering countries. Could a woman running the United States stop End The useless Wars?

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Sure! Just put Ann Coulter in the White House and see what happens

[3catwoman3]

2. I think most of us who are moms would not start wars.

We would not want to send out children to kill other mothers' children. (Speaking for myself, of course.)

[Glamrock]

3. Depends on the woman thom....

[Stuart G]

4. More than 2400 years ago, this was proposed in a Greek play. "Lysistrada"

First staged in 411 BC.

This play was meant to be a comedy by Aristophanes.. If one thinks deeply about it, I think it is the truth, not a comedy. If all the leaders of the world were women, I think there would be "less war"

http://www.ancient-literature.com/greece_aristophanes_lysistrata.html

[samnsara]

5. depends on the woman

[SixString]

6. Would they? Maybe.

Could they?

Probably not.

[jalan48]

7. We have women in Congress. Are they banding together to stop wars?

[unblock]

8. yeah maggie thatcher was such a peacenik. that falklands thing was super important.

[amcgrath]

9. Really?

Indira Gandi, Izabel Peron, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Theresa May - none of them with much concern about the fates of there citizens or others.

It could be argued that in some cases, women feel they must go the extra mile to prove that they can be at least as callous and brutal as their male counterparts

[Roy Rolling]

10. How Can Any Democrat Consider This?

I thought we were beyond thinking there are special qualities of a man or a woman that are particularly suited to top leadership.

Top leaders are a special mix of qualities, not limited by their gender. Neither a man nor a woman has a particular advantage in 2018.