Posted by
Bert Chapman on Wednesday, December 01, 2010 6:17:23 PM
The U.S. military is fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and is also conducting maneuvers with the South Korean military as a warning to North Korea following that regime's recent attack against a South Korean island. Our military, diplomatic, and intelligence communities are also having to assess the damage of the leaking of thousands of U.S. Govt. documents to the terrorist supporting organization Wikileaks. The Senate will soon consider a grievously flawed arms control treaty with Russia which should be shot down. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration, leading congressional Democrats, and our very models of modern politically correct major generals Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Admiral Mike Millen have decided its now okay to permit open military service by homosexuals. Yesterday, the Pentagon released a shoddily argued report that was reflective of the pro-gay rights ideology of the Obama Administration including the delusional belief and egregiously flawed historical analogy that military service is somehow a right on a constitutional level with racial integration or gender equality.
The report claimed that a majority of the 400,000 military personnel who responded to a survey they conducted had no objections to integrating openly gay personnel into service. First of all, there are just over 1.4 million active duty personnel in the military, and to believe that nearly 30% of them had the time to fill out such a survey defies logic and the response rates for social science surveys. Numerous leading military officers and combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan and repeatedly stated their vehement opposition to allowing military service by LBGT individuals since it would be seriously injurious to unit cohesion and combat readiness. The
Center for Military Readiness has prepared an excellent set of resources on the multiple problems involved with repealing 10 USC 654 including increased misconduct, penalizing opponents of this potential policy in their career promotion paths, and undermining the good order, discipline, morale, and unit cohesion essential for military success. Intelligence professionals will tell you that openly gay military personnel are increasingly likely to be blackmailed by hostile intelligence services and the fact that Private Bradley Manning, who is responsible for much of the material Wikileaks has received is gay, should be a bracing slap of reality for those who naively think depraved individuals should be trusted with military secrets. Anther useful historical precedent documenting the folly of this lifestyle and national security is that 4/5 of the Philby, Maclean, Burgess, Blunt, and Straight ring of British spies who worked for the Soviet Union and did grave damage to the west were gay or bisexual.
Allowing service by these individuals will increase sexual harassment and other forms of litigation and have detrimental effects in the battlefield, on ships and submarines, and in the barracks as increased interpersonal tension will make it harder for military personnel to execute their responsibilities. The military is a far different organizational culture than a civilian factory, laboratory, and office and differences in personal lifestyle choices and practices, which can be more readily accomodated in civilian workplaces, cannot be allowed to interfere with military activities. It may also tempt hostile nations and terrorist groups to believe that the U.S. military is becoming soft and flabby and invite aggression against us as they perceive us as becoming increasingly soft and decadent.
The military's purpose is not serving as a laboratory for social experimentation, reflecting purportedly evolving societal sexual mores, or promoting the ideological agenda of proponents of a particular lifestyle choice. It's purpose is defending the U.S. and its vital national interests by killing and destroying our enemies. Last month's election results show the country is waking up from its drunken stupor that elected the leftist extremism of Barack Obama, and that regime and its fanatical supporters are trying to ramrod through this legislation before they lose control of the House and partial control of the Senate in January. After then, repeal of 10 USC 654 (mistakenly labelled but commonly called Don't Ask Don't Tell) doesn't have a chance of success.