The US military is not the place for social experimentation. Any such changes in personnel policy should come from the JCS first, not from a very small but very vocal special interest group who happens to have the ear of the CIC.
Chucking the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy during a Lame Duck session is improper. The politicians should have waited for a full session of the House and Senate, where such things can be fully debated and not rammed through. I view the bill as not legitimate. The proper course would have been for the CIC to make the occasional inquiry of the JCS and ask if allowing gays to serve openly in the armed services would no longer affect efficiency and unit cohesion. Surely the first few inquiries would yield a negative answer, but eventually the CIC would receive a unanimous thumbs up, at which point the new policy gets greenlighted.
It should not have been, as it was a few days ago, because it satisfies the Dems sense of egalitarianism, giving them a warm, fuzzy feeling that they have just struck a blow for equality. The goal of the US military is not fairness and justice, but to efficiently destroy things and kill humans
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