VoteVets is a veterans’ organization, right?
Looking for some laughs today, I cruised over to read some of Soltz and the gang to see what they think is important. I was justly rewarded. What with a war looming with North Korea and Iran, Israel changing some of their policies in regards to Palestinians, the president in Europe, Cuban spies arrested in DC, what is our buddy Dicksmith worried about? Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell;
Well, you know, I looked at the chart from Gallup that shows a shift in US public opinion, and my first thought was “So?” Since when do we ask the general population to write military policy?
I’ll bet if we polled the general population on whether the UCMJ’s Article 15 or Captain’s Mast policy is fair, they’d probably disagree in large numbers. If we asked them if the Army should be able to punish people for the violation of the Army’s 670-1 Wear and Appearance regs, they’d probably tell us “no”.
So why should VoteVets, ostensibly a veterans organization (the word “vets” is right there in their name) even care what what civilians think? Why don’t they commission a poll of veterans and active duty soldiers instead of parroting the MoveOn line? Well, probably because the polling data wouldn’t come out like they want it.
Dicksmith continues;
As you can see, repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (a discriminatory policy that has harmed unit cohesion, readiness and combat effectiveness) has broad support across every single ideological, partisan and geographic demographic with every demographic also trending toward increased support for the repeal.
I wonder where he got the information that DADT has “harmed unit cohesion, readiness and combat effectiveness”. Like everything else they write over there, it probably has anal origins. He claims there’s “broad support across every single ideological, partisan and geographic demographic” – well, except veterans and the military.
But see, just because he’s parroting the MoveOn line (more accurately, the Human Rights Campaign line) and he’s a veteran, dicksmith lends a measure of legitimacy to illegitimate data – and thus taking a little bit more credibility away from all veterans just to pay off Vote Vets’ pay masters on the Left.
Notice, I’m not taking a stand on either side of the DADT issue. What I take issue with is the fact that a veterans’ organization doesn’t represent veterans at all. A group of people who should know better than to listen to polling in regards to military policy, don’t. Anyone who has spent more than a day in the military knows why we don’t ask society how to govern military members.
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