[LouD]

as for the rest

You're painting with an awfully broad brush...

Tailhook was nothing but orchestrated political theater, designed to further the goals of self-absorbed Women in the Military (TM) who believe that their right to do any job, no matter how biologically or socially unsuitable, supersedes the interest of the U.S. military in winning wars.

[wtc911]

You are right, my statement was too inclusive. I exercise my right to amend my own statements....There were SOME Naval officers who behaved exactly the way the mob in Central Park did at the parade. It was this criminal behavior (research the eyewitness reports) that started the scandal. It was more than just a few. These guys got what they earned, the same way those punks in the park did. Women were assaulted. Please let us know when that became acceptable.

As for the politics of it, you are on the right track....but the plain fact is that it was the officers who created the situation by their lack of control and decency. The left just exploited it.