Right gets their wish: Military buy-in on DADT

From reported comments by Conservative leaders regarding the ‘Don’t Ask. Don’t Tell’ policy that encouraged military gays and lesbians to stay in the closet:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said in October 2009 that for a reversal of DADT to be successful, there would have to be a “buy-in by the military.”

“They should be included in this,” said Graham. “I am open-minded to what the military may suggest, but I can tell you, I’m not going to make policy based on a campaign rally.”

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Messages from Afghanistan ... different viewpoints

One of my loyal readers is a military man, and sees the issue from a ‘military perspective’. Fair enough. But, it also seems as though that’ military perspective’ varies, and cannot be expressed so simply.

Indeed, even some of our military are deeply concerned about the efficacy of Obama’s new Afghan strategy, as are Afghan people themselves, in addition to such experts on the region as Col. Andrew Bacevich and Robert Baer of the CIA.

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