"millions of voters who admire Peter Pace"
A man like General Peter Pace never really stops working for America whether the Dressed Blues are freshly pressed from a resignation or long since packed in mothballs.
Perhaps the "millions of voters" should approach the General and ask his opinions of our present presidential candidates. Would the dutiful General Pace run for office (like VP)?
Militant homosexuality has tried to put on a legitimate uniform long before Nazis wore SA brown shirts. Liberals poisoned their relationship with law and order and our armed services in the post-Vietnam era. Silly movies (and some good ones) revealed how well-loved our uniformed citizens are by our fellow citizens. Since then, liberals have been trying to win back sympathies doing whatever might get them into a legitimate position of power. Liberals even tried to bring back the always unpopular forced conscription...and then blame it on conservatives who never want anti-establishment and/or criminals in uniform!
No, at this rate, liberals and militant homosexuality won't be part of the military (or they'll stay in the closet if they're in). We don't need prostituting spies on the payroll because eventually, law and order won't need real criminals pretending to be "undercover" pretending to be bad and really being bad thinking they serve the good (yes, I read that more than twice...it makes sense...trust me). Good will be good and bad will act badly at being good. There's too much information sharing that exposes hidden agendas. The "gentleman's game" of swapping spit with spies will remain a windowless building in the seedy section of town guarded by thugs rather than a windowless building on a well-guarded street in DC or the isolated farmland in northern VA. And even that will shrink.
(maybe the photo won't shrink, sorry it's so large)