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Conservative radio host Glenn Beck on Thursday blasted the Pentagon's decision to lift the ban on women serving in combat roles by warning that the enemies of the United States would not "cower in defeat because we have a female, Hispanic, Eskimo, dwarf crossdresser and some handi-capable, transgendered breast cancer survivor as a soldier on the front line."

"Nobody wants to be a pig, nobody wants to say the unpopular things, we just want to talk about the truth tonight," Beck explained at the top of his Thursday broadcast. "If a few feathers are ruffled, oh well."

"This is the dumbest idea I've ever heard," he continued. "The military is not designed to be beacon of equality, it's designed to defend the country in times of danger. And quite honestly, war is the act of killing each other. And to win, you have to kill people faster than the other team. That's what war is all about."

"The enemy is not going to cower in defeat because we have a female, Hispanic, Eskimo, dwarf cross dresser and some handicapable, transgendered breast cancer survivor as a soldier on the front line ready to unleash an attack of unparalleled diversity. Nope, that's not going to do it. You gotta kill them. That's how you make people cower in defeat."

Beck admitted there there were already many women serving on the front lines, "shooting, getting injured, getting blown up." But he insisted that combat was "a different ballgame."

"This is a disastrous idea that will not only weaken our military, but put women's lives at risk because they'll just lower the standards," he added. "What happens when we train our soldiers to become desensitized and ignore a woman's cry for help? Because that's what's happening. If you're on the battlefield and she's in trouble, you have to fight your natural instincts to make sure that everybody's treated exactly equal."

"We all know how excruciatingly difficult it is to see videos of a terrorist beheading one of our guys. What happens to our country when they start releasing tapes of them beheading our women, our sisters, our daughters? What happens when they start raping them?"

(h/t: Right Wing Watch)

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An anti-Muslim retired lieutenant general says that he would not want to serve in a combat role with women because "personal hygiene and the other normal functions" are already "degrading and humiliating enough" without having the opposite gender on the battlefield.

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Chris Wallace asked retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin why he disagreed with the Pentagon's decision to remove the ban on women in combat.

"You need to frame this thing correctly," Boykin explained. "It's not an issue of women in combat. Women are in combat already and have been in combat since 9/11, and in fact, prior to that."

"My issue here is mixing the genders in infantry units, armor units and special forces units is not a positive, there are many distractors there, which puts burden on the small-unit combat leaders and actually creates an environment -- because of their living conditions -- that is not conducive to readiness."

Boykin agreed that "some women can meet the standard," but the issue was about "personal hygiene."

"What I've raised is the issue of mixing the genders in those combat units, where there is no privacy, where they're out on extended operations and there's no opportunity for people to have any privacy whatsoever," the retired lieutenant general insisted.

"Now, as a man who has been there and as a man who has some experience in those kinds of units, I certainly don't want to be in that environment with a female because it's degrading and humiliating enough to do your personal hygiene and the other normal functions among your teammates," Boykin opined.

But retired United States Air Force colonel Martha McSally, the first American female combat pilot, countered that the privacy argument was a "red herring" because men and women have been serving together for years.

"You can figure out the privacy issue as long as you have the most capable, most qualified force," she said. "There should be no reason for these exclusionary policies... This privacy issue of men and women being next to each other, it's the same issue we've seen, which is a myth really and it is not a show-stopper."