The Beginning of the End for DADT

dreadgeek · 02-02-2010, 05:10 PM

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, today called for the military to end the DADT policy and allow gay and lesbian soldiers to serve openly:

"No matter how I look at the issue," Mullen said, "I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens." Noting that he was speaking for himself and not for the other service chiefs, Mullen added: "For me, it comes down to integrity – theirs as individuals and ours as an institution."

I couldn't have said it better myself. Even though I'm too old to get my military career back, I'm happy to see this happen. It's been too long coming.

Cheers
Aj

02-02-2010, 05:10 PM	#1
dreadgeek Power Femme How Do You Identify?: Cinnamon spiced, caramel colored, power-femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Married to a wonderful horse girl Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Lat: 45.60 Lon: -122.60 Posts: 1,733 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,132 Thanked 6,844 Times in 1,493 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	The Beginning of the End for DADT Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, today called for the military to end the DADT policy and allow gay and lesbian soldiers to serve openly: "No matter how I look at the issue," Mullen said, "I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens." Noting that he was speaking for himself and not for the other service chiefs, Mullen added: "For me, it comes down to integrity – theirs as individuals and ours as an institution." I couldn't have said it better myself. Even though I'm too old to get my military career back, I'm happy to see this happen. It's been too long coming. Cheers Aj __________________ Proud member of the reality-based community. "People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn’t measure up." (Terry Pratchett)

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