Again With The Not Supporting the Troops

Posted by Mary Mancini on March 13, 2007 under Uncategorized |

This is starting to become, you know, a thing with these guys. Yesterday, in an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said that he thinks homosexuality is immoral:

“I believe homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts. I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way.”

Nice. Hey Pace, do you command all the troops with that mind-set?

The article continues by pointing out that a “2005 government audit showed that about 10,000 troops have been discharged” because of Army’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy including more than 322 linguists (including 54 Arabic specialists). Whatever. Who needed those specialists anyway? Oh, wait, we did. It seems that the our armed forces are all coming up a little short in the foreign-language specialists department.

According to Pace, one of the country’s top generals, the “war on terror” isn’t as important as the “war on capable and loyal personnel.”

Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocacy group, said it best, “The real question is: What is moral about discharging qualified linguists during a time of war simply for being gay or lesbian?”