Elaine Donnelly

About the Author: Elaine Donnelly is an activist in the Michigan Republican Party and a former member of the Pentagon’s Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.

“If we can’t win a war without our mothers, what kind of a sorry fighting force are we? Even the evil Saddam Hussein doesn’t send mothers to fight a war. And what kind of policy is it for a nation to send both parents, single parents or mothers to war? A shameful and uncivilized policy, that’s what.”

This impassioned passage was written not by Phyllis Schlafly, or Pat Buchanan, or even Mr. Fred) Rogers. It was none other than Sally Quinn, the blond Washington Post writer, who wrote that she felt downright queasy when...