“We have a gay guy [in the unit]. He’s big, he’s mean, and he kills lots of bad guys. No one cared that he was gay.”
- quote from a special ops soldier from the DADT survey which was released on Tuesday, November 30th
Senator John McCain's cowardly delay in today's hearings is absolutely shameful. The overall result of the survey is that 60-70% of the force believes that repeal of DADT would essentially be a non-event. A plurality of survey respondents described themselves as "neutral" to the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and roughly 30% reported slightly negative or strongly negative feelings.
However when President Truman desegregated the Army in 1951, 80-90% of the force was against it. Desegregating the army was the right thing to do then, and repealing DADT is the right thing to do NOW.
UPDATE: The full report is available and has been posted in a searchable format on nytimes.com. Click here to read the report in full.
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6 months ago
Excellent use of all CAPS.
ReplyDeleteThat's how you know I mean it!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I don't understand McCain's obstructionism on this issue. He's grasping at straws, and unfortunately the Marines and Air Force chiefs were encouraging him.
ReplyDeleteThe policy should be abolished.