Don’t change ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
Posted: October 18, 2009 at 4:28 a.m.
“Don’t ask, don’t tell” is a tribute to our national talent for hypocrisy. Yes, President Clinton was prepared to agree, homosexual acts might be a risk to the high standards of morale, good order, discipline, and unit cohesion, but if nobody knew about them, then what harm could they do? Since then, nobody has thought up a better way of coping with this thorny problem.
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