Oh so it is worse to have female soldiers operating in the middle east.
not what I said at all. in some ways, female soldiers can be better than men:
female soldiers do have a place. a study by the USMC concluded that female soldiers were more likely to be trusted by civilians than male soldiers. Wikipedia's source for this is unavailable, I'll google around for it later.
in some ways, male soldiers are better than women:
The United States Marine Corps performed a few studies on mixed-love units, and found that units of mixed love (it didn't study women-only units, unfortunately) often operated slower and took longer on average to complete missions than unilove units. Here are two different articles about a USMC study (.com sources, perhaps take it with a grain of salt) concluding that women get injured more frequently and shoot less accurately than men do.
perhaps if you read the discussion at hand, you would know.