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- From: rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
- Subject: Re: Military info needed
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.193451.19287@PacBell.COM>
- Sender: news@PacBell.COM (Pacific Bell Netnews)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, California
- References: <19921112164502ECL4JN2@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> <1992Nov13.170045.899@PacBell.COM> <43@bbx.basis.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:34:51 GMT
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- > scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker) writes:
- >> rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams) writes:
-
- >>[Clinton comment on overturning military ban deleted]
- >
- >>That last line carries some weight, I think. Why would he
- >>commit himself so thoroughly to overturning the ban if he knew
- >>he mightn't follow through? It's not like he didn't know
- >>only too well that there'd be a great to do about it...
- >
- >A while back, Barbara Walters interviewed "Stormin'" Normin about
- >overturning the ban. He was against it because it would cause
- >"morale" problems...
-
- You have to remember that these generals and admirals --
- Powell, Crowe, Schwarzkopf -- are not in the business of
- implementing or even supporting social justice. Their job is
- to maintain an effective and cohesive military. Decisions
- like integrating the military racially, allowing women to
- serve in combat roles and overturning the ban on gays and
- lesbians are *political* decisions, all of which were or
- are "prejudicial to good order and discipline." The generals
- wouldn't be doing their job if they supported these changes.
-
- The question is not whether opening the military to out gays
- and lesbians would hurt it in some way -- plainly it would
- (will) to some extent *in*the*short-term*. As a society, we
- have to decide if all our institutions, including the
- military, are to be open to all qualified citizens. If our
- society guarantees freedom and equality to all, shouldn't the
- defense of that society be entrusted to all?
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- rod williams -=- pacific bell -=- san ramon, ca -=- rjwill6@pacbell.com
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