Read the article. You’re interjecting all sorts of presuppositions.
“All he’s saying is that he’ll carry out his orders to the best of his ability.”
No. He will personally lead the way for gay integrations. You think this is a strategic move and that maybe things will change in a couple of years?
Bull hockey. Amos should have resigned. That would have made a real loud and clear statement for moral clarity. Now with this statement, he is looking like a poster child for fags in the barracks.
Okay, so Amos resigns, leaving behind all his active-duty Marines who are in the middle of their enlistments without the option to resign, and midgrade officers whose resignations won't be accepted. Exactly what good does that accomplish?
If you think this battle is already lost permanently, and that there's no way to reverse it, why does it matter what Amos says? You've already run up the white flag.