Boreas
02-07-2010, 01:13 PM
Very surprising!
This morning on "Fox & Fiends" Fox's military analyst Col. David Hunt (a serious hard liner) said that DADT had been an "abject failure" and that "we’ve lost somewhere between 11 and 14,000 soldiers."
He went on to say, "Being brave in the battlefield has nothing to do with how you go to the bathroom or how you have sex. … If you volunteer to serve this great country, we should welcome you, not push you away because of some arcane attitude about sex."
Even the Fox host seemed to agree.
CLAYTON MORRIS: "On the campaign trail, then-Sen. John McCain said, look, when I hear from the military brass that they want to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, I’ll get right in line with them. That’s what happened — we heard from Admiral Mullen, we heard from Defense Secretary Gates. … Why is John McCain flip-flopping here?"
COL. HUNT: "It’s just too damn convenient for McCain to be doing this. … He’s just wrong on this. We’re in a war. We’ve got guys deployed for 8 years in Afghanistan, almost 7 years in Iraq. And somebody says, I want to serve this country. And McCain wants to say, if you’re homosexual, you can’t serve. It’s wrong. We need these kind of people. We need all of them."
Hunt went on to say that, while acceptance of gays in the military won't come easily, it's still the right thing to do.
Meanwhile, you've got convicted criminal Ollie North saying that, Obama "now intends to treat (the military) like lab rats in a radical social experiment." He also said, "This isn't about rights. This isn't about fairness. It's all about national security. And, apparently, Mr. Obama has forgotten it."
John
This morning on "Fox & Fiends" Fox's military analyst Col. David Hunt (a serious hard liner) said that DADT had been an "abject failure" and that "we’ve lost somewhere between 11 and 14,000 soldiers."
He went on to say, "Being brave in the battlefield has nothing to do with how you go to the bathroom or how you have sex. … If you volunteer to serve this great country, we should welcome you, not push you away because of some arcane attitude about sex."
Even the Fox host seemed to agree.
CLAYTON MORRIS: "On the campaign trail, then-Sen. John McCain said, look, when I hear from the military brass that they want to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, I’ll get right in line with them. That’s what happened — we heard from Admiral Mullen, we heard from Defense Secretary Gates. … Why is John McCain flip-flopping here?"
COL. HUNT: "It’s just too damn convenient for McCain to be doing this. … He’s just wrong on this. We’re in a war. We’ve got guys deployed for 8 years in Afghanistan, almost 7 years in Iraq. And somebody says, I want to serve this country. And McCain wants to say, if you’re homosexual, you can’t serve. It’s wrong. We need these kind of people. We need all of them."
Hunt went on to say that, while acceptance of gays in the military won't come easily, it's still the right thing to do.
Meanwhile, you've got convicted criminal Ollie North saying that, Obama "now intends to treat (the military) like lab rats in a radical social experiment." He also said, "This isn't about rights. This isn't about fairness. It's all about national security. And, apparently, Mr. Obama has forgotten it."
John