Uh, don’t go too hard on Gates.
This was not his call, and this statement gives him the option to control how far this goes. If he came out hard against it, he wouldn’t have any say in any future deliberations.
As it is, he said he’d like the internal policy review to continue, never mind the fact that Obama essentially cut him off at the knees.
The implementation of open homosexuals into the military will ruin it from within.
I am not the Secretary of Defense, but even I know the ramifications of such an insidious idea.