Reply #9: I was about to say the same thing.

[RaleighNCDUer]

Nobody seems to remember that when DADT was first implemented by Clinton it was seen as an improvement over the existing situation, where commanders could spy on their subordinates, inform on them to military intelligence, have the followed and probably even wiretapped to get proof if they were gay. DADT meant no one was supposed to ask about it, and the gay individuals were not supposed to tell about it. But there were no provisions for disciplining anyone who DID ask about it, so the spying continued unabated. So the situation, as we've seen, hardly changed while at the same time Clinton got hammered for supporting gays. Then he got hammered for NOT supporting gays, and not ending the discrimination in the first place.

I think a few months wait is prudent, because it gives the new administration time to figure out who the particular blocking parties are. How do you do this where there is a large contingent in the office corp that is fundie-crazy christian, who have been coercively proselytizing to their subordinates. Those people need to be retired or shunted off to non-executive positions where the damage they are doing is minimized. With them out of the way, and the military returned to the professional standards it once held, THEN it can address the issue without being undermined from within.

Yeah. I know. I'm calling for a purge of fundies in the military. It does the military no good to have people who place religious ideology above professionalism and discipline.