Meehan and Franks; out in left field

Marty Meehan and Barney Franks announced that they want to tinker with “Don’t ask, don’t tell” during the next two years in Congress. Can someone please tell me how in the hell this has any relevence in the world today, outside of the fact that Franks and Meehan can meet more gay advocates and make some more points with the fringe supporters of Democrats? How can this minutae compare with the worldwide struggle against tyranny?

How many people have been booted from the military since this half-measure was instituted in 1993? Well, I can’t tell you, because there are no public statistics. Why wouldn’t all of the gay advocates be announcing some HUGE number of poor souls denied the right of giving their lives for their country? Because the number isn’t huge. There aren’t that many gays who want to serve, the whole fight is based on the fact that gays want the barrier down – not because of some patriotic bloodlust to kill our nation’s enemies, or a need to tend to our wounded in battle, or even cooking scrumptious meals for our warriors.

They want Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell to go away simply because of the idea that there’s something they’re not allowed to do – not something they want to do, but that’s irrelevant, apparently. Yes, there are SOME gays in the military; there have probably always been a few gays in the military. But there’s no huge goldstrike of volunteers just waiting to be mined by recruiters that could turn the tide of battle against Islamofacism as we’re being led to believe.

And since our military is doing just fine and dandy without the revocation of this policy, why would Democrats bother to tinker with something that ain’t broke? Unless they view the military as some grand social experiment and another way of garnering more votes from the ‘downtrodden’? More grandstanding from the Democrats that will cost them in 2008.

Category: Politics