Except, what I got from her statement was not that women should expect to be raped, but that increases in the number of women in the military will result in an increase in the number of rapes in the military. Perhaps I heard her wrong and if I did, oh well.

And I have to argue that the military is a microcosm of society. The US military life is as vastly different from US civilian life as Japanese culture differs from classical southern Baptist life. Yes. We all have fundamental needs, food, clothing and shelter, but I remember the culture shock when I joined the army and again, when I returned to civilian life. The expectations of the individual, the pursuits and goals of the collective, they are nothing alike. Yes, the military is a smaller society, but it is not a representative of the US society as a whole.