Weinstein Compares Apples and Potatoes

Over at VetVoice this morning, dicksmith reprints an article from Mother Jones written by their token veteran Adam Weinstein entitled “Army Kicks Out More Gays Than Fat Soldiers”. I guess it’s supposed to mean that the Army is more worried about gays in the military than unhealthy fat people. he could have just as easily titled the article “Army uses more bullets than TOW missiles” or “Navy sees more water than the Army”;

But the Army’s recent discharge statistics (.xls), given to MoJo by a government source, suggest that the service has been far more concerned about its soldiers’ sexual orientation than their waistlines, muscular endurance, or cardiovascular ability. In fiscal 2007 and 2008, the Army brass threw out 592 enlisted members for violating DADT—more soldiers than it ejected for excessive body fat or fitness-test failures combined.

I guess that neither Weinstein or dicksmith could fathom the fact that maybe there were more malcontents who declared themselves gay than there were body fatties. And unlike gayness, some body fatness is treatable. It’s not like a commander can put a gay guy on a diet of vaginas for a year until he’s not gay anymore. They don’t get another shot at the Gay Test to see they can pass on a second try.

And there’s always Bethany Smith/Skyler James who was begging to get thrown out for violations of DADT and couldn’t.

Yeah, I’ll do another interview with Weinstein…in his fucking wet dreams.

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