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Now, Defense Secretary Gates has begun to use it, too.
He does give some examples of more "humane" ways of dealing with DADT.
One example of that might be — what if we did not take into account third parties trying to harm somebody who may be gay in the service. Somebody who may have a vendetta, or hatred toward somebody, and therefore out them as a way to wreck their career. Is there a way we can not focus on those kinds of reports.
What? If authorities are made aware that a soldier is gay or lesbian, the law demands they discharge them. It doesn't matter if they're made aware of the soldier's orientation if it comes from a third party with a vendetta. So is he proposing they just ignore it?
Gates puts the onus back on Congress to get legislation through to repeal, reminding us that DADT is not just a policy, but a law. But he'll break that law if a personal vendetta is involved?
But I would like to remind him that in the interim, Obama has the authrority to put a stop-loss on discharges. And he won't.
Where's the humanity in that?
There is no humanity in the policy at all. And even as written it is so often violated by the military. They ask, and there are no consequences to them for asking. The best hope is the lawsuit pending in the ninth circuit. Obama seems to be afraid of the generals. Makes one wonder who is running the country.
ReplyDeleteI am embarrassed by what wusses we are. There should be direct action demonstrations, sit-ins, picketing, etc. against this stupid policy. We just sit back whining because Obams doesn't do what he should. If people picketed recruiting offices, took up the recruitiers' time with submitting applications by openly gay and lesbian people, etc., we would get some action here. Where is ACT-UP when we need them. Where are our leaders?
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