so my question is, is it worth it to take the risks that these wives are worried about, to take the risks of the disruptions and so on to accommodate the small percentage of women that, in fact, could do the jobs because of issues of fairness or equity? i have a feeling that, you know, i don t know where it s going to go. if it goes that way, i think i agree with sebastian that they re going to be a very different kind of human being when they get done fighting in combat. you did save the best for last. [laughter] i want to thank you for your service, thank the members of the audience. [applause] the gentlemen will be happy to autophotograph at the autograph area. you can continue to speak with them. thank you all, we ll be back in about 15 minutes. this event was part of the 2010 miami book fair international. for more information, visit miamibookfair.com. coming up next, book tv presents after words, an hourlong program where we invite a guest hosts to interview autho
ground than the people on the ground. when we start to have this top driven rule of engagement, youñ are indeed putting our young men and women in a very bad situation. if you re out in the middle of the night on a road in afghanistan and iraq and you got a shovel, you got a wheelbarrow and a couple of oblong looking device with wires coming out of it, i don t think you re out there planting fruit, but yet, our young men and women have to ask for clearance. look at any of these apache gun tapes and you will hear them calling back asking them to engage when they have eyes on the target and they clearly know what is happening. . . we knew what they went through. you know about the four gentlemen who had plastic explosives here in york and wanted to blow a synagogue. we know about the men who got this from yemen and came back and shot soldiers. we have the illegal immigrant in dallas. we had the fort dix 6. all of these things are happening right here, not to mention the chri