I’ve always suspected that Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ statement that he supported the elimination of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ was very possibly bogus. His coupling of his supposed support for elimination of the policy didn’t quite jibe with his repeated emphasis on the supposed need for a full year of study by the Pentagon. In [...]
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I have written a number of posts about the attempt to eliminate the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. In my view, President Obama and Congress should simply have defunded enforcement of the policy and, thus, effectively ended it while the far more more difficult elimination of the law unfolded slowly though Congress. That, of course, [...]
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As I suspected, although he has said some positive things, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has never had his heart into repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” His “review” of the procedures has been a delaying tactic that really isn’t necessary. If he and the Obama administration were to do it right, they would repeal the law [...]
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