QuoteMost US troops think allowing gays to serve openly in the military would have a minimal effect on US war efforts, the Washington Post newspaper reports.

Some 70% of troops surveyed said the effects of repealing the ban would be positive, mixed or nonexistent, the paper said, citing a Pentagon report.

US President Barack Obama has called for an end to the policy.

But hopes for a repeal dimmed this month amid conservative Republican gains in the US Congress.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11736549

That's a shame, a lot of us are looking for ways that will harm the war effort.

Quote from: tekla on November 14, 2010, 09:44:26 AM
That's a shame, a lot of us are looking for ways that will harm the war effort.

It's fairly obvious that the current episode of muscle flexing, since 2002, is a rerun of the last bout, 1966 to 1972, but this time, they are learning from their mistakes.

I have to say, I'm somewhat sceptacle of this report and its motives. Could be the military, who ultimately run things in the US, are looking for a way out.

Time will tell.

It's not the military side of the military-industrial-educational complex that runs things, only the industrial side has any real say, largely because the own the players.