{"id":17631,"date":"2010-02-23T19:09:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T00:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17631"},"modified":"2010-02-23T19:10:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T00:10:48","slug":"general-casey-breaks-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17631","title":{"rendered":"General Casey Breaks Ranks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not a George Casey fan. His handling of the Ft. Hood massacre and its aftermath<\/a> were absolutely horrible. But I need to give credit when credit is due and commend him and for breaking ranks with his bosses in the administration by raising legitimate questions about the repeal of DADT in front of the Senate.<\/p>\n

From Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A key senator suggested a possible compromise: suspending discharges of gays from the military under the current policy, known as “don’t ask, don’t tell,” for a while.<\/p>\n

“That would mean that if for some reason it is not repealed, down the road, the current discharge policy would stay in place,” Senator Carl Levin said.<\/p>\n

Some polling says most Americans favor repealing the policy requiring gay service members to keep quiet about their homosexuality. But any change must be approved by Congress, and some lawmakers say they will be guided by the military brass.<\/p>\n

Both Army General George Casey and Air Force General Norton Schwartz told lawmakers they were worried about the impact of such a change on a U.S. military under stress after years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

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Like I said in my last post about DADT<\/a>, this is not a priority for the Obama administration. They punted by saying it was up to Congress to repeal the ban and the closer we get to the elections the less we will hear about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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