Behind the folly of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
By James Carroll | Monday, October 5, 2009 | The Boston Globe
“…Now thwy tell us. Sixteen years after institutionalizing a denigration of gay people, the Pentagon is discovering that its ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy has been a moral catastrophe. Undermining the morale it was supposed to protect, it has been ‘wholly inconsistent with a core military value – integrity’. That’s the conclusion of an upcoming article in the Joint Force Quarterly, from the office of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – reported on last week by the Globe’s Bryan Bender. The journal article, based on a study conducted at the National Defense University, issues a forthright call for a repeal of the ban on homosexuals in the military….”…BS
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