Posted on 04/01/2010 10:22:53 AM PDT by bs9021
Don’t Ask Don’t Towel
Malcolm A. Kline, April 1, 2010
It is probably not too surprising that so-called “public intellectuals” have descended from academic canyons to call for the repeal of the U. S. military’s ban on homosexuality in the service. “Military experts today expressed concern about Marine Commandant General James Conway’s remarks that he would build new quarters to separate gay and straight troops,” Laura McGinnis of Renna Communications reported on March 26, 2010. “Many said his plans could cause the very problems he seeks to prevent.”
“I would not ask our Marines to live with someone who is homosexual if we can possibly avoid it. And to me that means we have to build BEQs [bachelor enlisted quarters] and have single rooms” Gen. Conway, who previously expressed resistance to lifting the ban on openly gay service, said in an interview with Military.com.
Many of the experts McGinnis refers to have academic berths. “Richard H. Kohn, a prominent military historian who was faculty at the Army and National War Colleges, and was Chief of Air Force History for the U.S. Air Force, said that ‘segregating Marines, as Gen. Conway envisions, might undermine the very cohesion he and other opponents of change say they are trying to protect,’” McGinnis writes. “Kohn said that ‘the proper response to a question on the issue is to defer any statement until the Ham-Johnson group reports,’ referring to the year-long Pentagon Working Group.”
“Kohn is currently Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.” Kohn, of course, is not a voice in the academic wilderness.....
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I an genuinely curious about what Israel has done in terms of open gays serving in the IDF.
The IDF obviously kicks ass,
but are there written or unwritten restrictions on gays’ serving? Are they discouraged from service in elite combat units, encouraged to stick to office jobs? Or is it anything goes/ no restrictions at all?
If they house gays and straights together, I see no way they can keep men and women out of the same housing as well? Is it all going to end up like that cheesy Stormship Troopers movie? Coed showers and nobody bats an eye?
I can’t imagine all the new problems this is going to cause.
Don’t Ask - It’ll Spoil the Surprise
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Don’t Ask...But Don’t Drop Your Soap
Don’t Ask, You’ll Find Out Soon Enough
Don’t Ask, We’re Just Going to do to You What We’ve Done to the Economy
I just want to share the women’s showers.
Why not?
Be wary of shrinkage!
If the troopers look Denise Richards,will if I have to.
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