berkeley update

Remember that Berkeley city council anti-war resolution? Well, some folks have begun an economic boycott of the city as a result.
(Link ripped from Glenn Reynolds at the very useful InstaPundit. He’s also links to Drudge reporting that U.S. officials are planning to remove women from the front lines of combat, not long after some Clinton policies put them there. He points out, probably wisely, that it’s a bad idea, and not only for gender-bias reasons: can you imagine how the Taliban would react if they realized they were getting beaten by a bunch of girls? It might be the kind of humiliation Islamic fundamentalism could never recover from. “I think we should be saturating the Mideast with television footage of female soldiers and pilots,” Glenn writes.)