General Peter Pace, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, thinks homosexuality is immoral and therefore gays shouldn't be allowed to serve "openly". Killing people, OTOH, is just fine and dandy. Just another example of military "values" in action...
(Hat tip: Liberal Catnip)
That "gays in the military" thing is so stupid.
ReplyDeleteLook at all the great soldiers who were gay. Without bothering to research I can think of:
- Lawrence of Arabia - as christmas
- Montgomery - probably
There might be a case for not allowing straights in the military - since if General Pace and his cohorts are anything to go by, they are crap at the job.
I don't really know what this post is trying to say.
ReplyDeleteThe reasoning seems to be:
1) killing people is against our most fundamental values.
2) People in the military believe in killing people (What else do you expect? They are obviously in the wrong job if they don't, at least under some circumstances). 3) Therefore, anybody in the military who professes to have any values at all is a hypocrite.
That's OK I guess if you are a committed pacifist who doesn't believe that the military has a right to exist for any purpose at all, including UN peacekeeping. But it's nonsense in the real world, where it's impossible to deter aggressors without being prepared to kill them.
Of course killing people is fine and dandy, THAT'S WHAT ARMIES DO.
ReplyDeleteIt's the armies that can't/won't you need to worry about; they're the ones wasting your money.
As for social agendas, they're irrelevant in the military arena (if you actually think about it), because armies are there to kill and destroy.
M'lud.
Hey, let's not forget the greats out of antiquity...
ReplyDeleteAlexander the (literaly) Great and Archillies. Not to mention Julius Cesear.
On the other hand, Republicans these days see nothing wrong with embracing US Marine corporals, even when they have a glorious past in gay porno movie making.
ReplyDeleteCorporal Sanchez posed cutely with Ann Coulter with the blogosphere instinctively asking which one had the 11-inch cock. Priceless.
The homophobe general is just a dick.
(http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2007/03/peter-principle.html)
*yawn* I think you've missed the point, I/S. General Pace needs to be reminded that the Armed Forces of the United States are ultimately subject to civilian command and if the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy is repealed, then he can either STFU and implement it or resign.
ReplyDeleteNot really that difficult.
I think Bill Hicks says it well:
ReplyDelete"Anybody dumb enough to want to be in the military should be allowed in. End of f$#king story."
Really. Why is this even an issue?
Milou
BTW, Uroskin, Senator Mark Warner - the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee - managed to serve Gen. Pace an extra tall fuckupachino while the allegedly gay-friendly front-runners for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senators Clinton and Obama, have ducked and covered.
ReplyDeleteFunny old world, isn't it?