Recent news that nine military personnel and 11 Secret Service agents allegedly solicited prostitutes in Columbia has sparked a congressional inquiry, institutional investigations and much speculation about how such an act might threaten presidential security. If Congress or the military wants to get to the bottom of the prostitution scandal in Columbia, or if it would like to seriously address the alarmingly high rates of military sexual assault that continue to plague American women in uniform, it needs to begin with the military's own history of facilitating soldiers' sexual access to women. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.