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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Don’t Care

Posted on | September 21, 2011 | 20 Comments

by Smitty

Via American Power, I guess some policy thing or other happened having to do with Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

While I’m essentially done with my military involvement, I’m confident that my opinion is mirrored by a huge chunk, if not the overwhelming bulk, of people in uniform: we don’t care. Specifically, no one really cares about anybody else’s junk. Sure, we live and conduct personal hygiene in some relatively immodest ways. Yes, the transcript veers a bit into the graphic from time to time. Indeed, there was some historically reactionary attitude offered toward the alternative lifestyles crowd.

Yet the military is first and foremost about rounds on target in support and defense of the U.S. Constitution. It has never been about being a dating service. My personal interests, sexual or otherwise, have never been a priority. We’re walking back our liberty to behind a line drawn by the UCMJ so that, when the time is up, that liberty is preserved and maximally enjoyable.

I bear no ill will to anyone over their sexuality. Indeed, I have known some gay service members. It never passed the ‘so, what?’ test. The military mission just has no sexual component.

What I hope will be clear to all parties involved is that this was no military decision. It was a political decision, not pure and simple, but impure and complex. The alternative lifestyles crowd may or may not represent a significant constituency within the military (I doubt it, both for reasons of history and temperment) but they appear to contribute cash and work hours to Lefty causes.

Cynically, the Left has used sexual liberation to paper over its strangulation of liberty. In the manner of the thieving tart, the Left has stroked the public erogenous zones with the one hand, while picking the pocket with the other. This military drive-by on DADT is more of same.

My prediction is that, years on, this event shall have proven as meaningful as the President’s budget. The percentage of homosexuals serving in the military will probably hold constant, and the military bias favoring ‘form follows function’ shall be about what it’s always been. The Administration could as well have issued an Executive Order stating 2+2=5. Such thinking was confined to the budget, however.

Update: linked at Daily Pundit.

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Comments

20 Responses to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Don’t Care”

  1. Anonymous
    September 21st, 2011 @ 2:59 pm

    DADT Repeal: repealed Jan 2013 along with Obamacare by overwhelming majorities in Congress and signed into law by President Palin. Military recruiting and morale skyrockets.

    Roll them back!

  2. The Wondering Jew
    September 21st, 2011 @ 3:29 pm

    “In the manner of the thieving tart, the Left has stroked the public
    erogenous zones with the one hand, while picking the pocket with the
    other.”

    You’ve got that exactly right.

  3. Joe
    September 21st, 2011 @ 3:29 pm

    This whole roll back of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” will be about as eventful as the aftermath of Y-2000.  It will be a non event. 

    A few gays will join.  Great.  If they serve honorably they are welcome.  Beyond that it will be a complete non event.  This is about Obama trying to bolster his own base.  Symbolically I am sure it is important to some gays, but in the long term they are mostly not interested in serving in the miltary. 

    As for the military, all branches had gays already.  What this does is prevent the rare abuse of authority and also takes away the easy way to get out of the military without a court martial (oh, I’m gay, don’t kick me out!). 

  4. Richard Mcenroe
    September 21st, 2011 @ 3:36 pm

    Unintended Consequence of DADT Repeal

    I’ve written about my own experience with homophobia in the military elsewhere.  Although I remained personally clueless for years after that, when I did find a gay sergeant in my command, my response was “damned if I’m going to waste a good NCO.”  I did not regret that decision and he never gave me cause to.

  5. Daily Pundit » This Is My Rifle, This, My Gun. This is For Fighting, This For Fun.
    September 21st, 2011 @ 11:38 am

    […] Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Don’t Care : The Other McCain What I hope will be clear to all parties involved is that this was no military decision. It was a political decision, not pure and simple, but impure and complex. The alternative lifestyles crowd may or may not represent a significant constituency within the military (I doubt it, both for reasons of history and temperment) but they appear to contribute cash and work hours to Lefty causes. […]

  6. Anonymous
    September 21st, 2011 @ 3:54 pm

    Yes, the military will probably be fine, but I’m just not a fan of the argument, “At best, nothing will change.”  This will only lead to distracting political pressure, like with the military wiccan worship ground or the military atheist high-five hour. 

  7. Anonymous
    September 21st, 2011 @ 4:40 pm

    It doesn’t end with repeal/rollback of DADT. The “struggle” will now focus on full equality of Gays in the military. The “right” to marry with full spousal benefits etc.

  8. Quartermaster
    September 21st, 2011 @ 4:49 pm

    Things will indeed change. There are already queers that are agitating not just for tolerance, but affirmation of their mentally sick lifestyle. It isn’t going to end well. It’s just another data point on the road to moonbat victory.

  9. ThePaganTemple
    September 21st, 2011 @ 5:24 pm

    Repeal of DADT is just the beginning. Next item on the agenda, or at least somewhere down the line-fairness in promotions doctrine.Don’t look now Smitty but there might very well be a homosexual general headed to a military base near you, and a few colonels, majors, etc. Keep a low profile. You never can tell when some general might pick you out to “carry his bags” or to draw him a nice hot bubble bath, or maybe caress, I mean massage his aching loins. They all aren’t going to be working the mess tent.

  10. serfer62
    September 21st, 2011 @ 6:46 pm

    I have respect for those queers who shelved their passion to serve. I do NOT have any for those queers who look to the military as a perverts dream.

    As a young man I fought of serious homo attack, twice with a knife, another I outran the dude. Those memories simpathize with the young people in service who may not have the option.

    DADT was a magnificent way to allow patriots to serve.

  11. Anonymous
    September 21st, 2011 @ 6:57 pm

    The “Gay agenda” isn’t about mere fairness or equality but shoving acceptance down everyone else’s throat that agenda is succeeding. The goal isn’t to make homosexuality acceptable but to make opposition to it unacceptable at every level.

  12. CalMark
    September 21st, 2011 @ 7:02 pm

    I disagree with you.

    I spent a lot of years in the Navy, and sometimes saw gays on the prowl, usually aggressively, including on two ships.

    There may not be very many of them, but those who choose to “come out” will create huge disciplinary problems.

    In short, there will be hell to pay.

  13. CalMark
    September 21st, 2011 @ 7:05 pm

    P.S.  You’ve doubtless sat through many day-long, mind-numbing “Naval Rights and Responsibilities” seminars, leftist shibboleth-preaching wrapped up as “settled” social science.  (One gem:  “Pregnancy is a medical condition like any other.”  That is, morally equivalent to everything from a serious illness to horrific shrapnel wounds.)  Coming soon:  “Gay is good–and if you disagree, it’s an Other Than Honorable discharge for you”–just like if you violate any other Thought Police code.

  14. CalMark
    September 21st, 2011 @ 8:35 pm

    Degeneracy can only last so long.  Upon “going mainstream,” it usually implodes in less than a generation. 

    Think of 1920s Berlin, which makes current-day San Francisco look positively tame, but was already burning out under the weight of its own sleaze by the time the Nazis came to power.

    The bad part is that we have to live through this disgusting era.

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  16. Mortimer Snerd
    September 21st, 2011 @ 10:37 pm

    “I’m confident that my opinion is mirrored by a huge chunk, if not the overwhelming bulk, of people in uniform: we don’t care.”

    Yep.  And, that’s the problem.   

  17. DaveO
    September 21st, 2011 @ 11:28 pm

    Actually Smitty, you’d be pretty sickened at how ironic your ’rounds on target’ statement is.

    Repealing DADTDP had 2 purposes:

    1. Re-open the DNC’s GayTM.

    2. Destroy GOPRoud as a credible movement among the GLBT community by undermining its alleged independence from the ultra-liberal GLBT community. They are indistinguishable from each other.

  18. Blaster
    September 22nd, 2011 @ 1:25 am

    With the end of DADT so go most of my Navy jokes.

    Well, at least I have my best one still. Why is the USNA mascot a goat? A sheep would be too obvious!

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    September 22nd, 2011 @ 4:11 pm

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