WXIA -- The Pentagon's decision to lift the ban against women in
combat will take the age-old battle of the sexes into the real-
life theater of war.  "I will tell you that there are some men I
would never want to serve in a foxhole with," said Goldie
Taylor.  "And I'll tell you that there are some women on this
planet that I would not want to be a in a foxhole without."
Taylor is a political commentator who served in the Marines.
"They don't put a gun in your hands unless they understand that
you are prepared to follow through and do the job," she said
emphatically.  "It's a bad idea whose time has not come," said
John Douglas, offering the opposite side of the argument.
Douglas is a Newton County Commissioner and a retired Army
officer. He's also a former state senator and chairman of the
Veterans Military and Homeland Security Committee.  "It's an
idea that came from people, who in spite of their protestations,
have despised the military since Vietnam, who've used it as a
left wing social laboratory the