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Yet more evidence that “Military Intelligence” is an oxymoron

Nine Army linguists, including six trained to speak Arabic, have been dismissed from the military because they are gay.

- from an AP newswire article on November 14

Pathetic.Here we have the world's greatest superpower, which also happens to be sorely and dangerously lacking in military personnel who can speak critical foreign languages, dismissing folks because of their sexual predilection.

It sometimes takes years to kick out sexual harrassers in the military, and my understanding is that harrassment against women officers is still very much a problem in the military.

But it takes just one admission or shred of evidence to highlight someone's homosexuality, and boom, they're out the door.

How ironic that we trumpet Freedom with a capital F around the world and decry discrimination around the world, yet somehow can't manage to break out of our own homophobia.

- Blathered by Adam on Thursday, November 14, 2002 at 22:59 [ Permalink | Trackback ]
- Filed under Society • Politics
- Commented on by 3 folks so far. Scroll down and see for yourself (and join in the conversation!)

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Harald

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And you just said you wanted everybody to take part in this backward culture. As if American culture isn’t violent enough already. Does the world really need more Americans with the ability to kill?

- Posted on Monday, November 18, 2002 at 11:53 [ Permalink to this comment ]

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Adam
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Ah, but I think you misread me, Harald

I was making an argument earlier for compulsory military OR civilian service. See http://blog.smilezone.com/archives/000208.htm#000208

Furthermore, I honestly believe that if our military were more diverse (including, perhaps, the sons and daughters of our government leaders), I think America would act more sensibly and be not as quick in jumping into armed conflicts.

- Posted on Saturday, November 23, 2002 at 19:20 [ Permalink to this comment ]

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h0ly

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dismissed from the military because they are gay.

thats really messed up…

i believe our goverment is really messed with to much confusion..

- Posted on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 18:58 [ Permalink to this comment ]

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