Showing posts with label don't. Show all posts
Showing posts with label don't. Show all posts

Saturday, May 3, 2008

IRAN DRAWS LINE IN THE SAND WITH UK

It sure sounds like Iran is calling the UK out...punking them if you ask me...Then again, who knows what these nutjobs are talking about half the time?

Iran told Britain not to cross any "red lines" when preparing incentives for the Islamic Republic aimed at ending a row with the West over Tehran's nuclear program, the Iranian foreign minister said on Saturday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr said he met his British counterpart, David Miliband, in Kuwait recently. Britain and Iran attended a multilateral meeting there on Iraq last month.

"I told him that 'You have used a word, and I think it is a forbidden word ... Don't pass those red lines. Be careful about that'," Mottaki said without saying what those "red lines" were.
This could be a threat of military action against England. Or it could just be Iran's way of saying "Yes...We do mind if you dance with our dates"
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Thursday, April 10, 2008

OBAMA'S POLICY ON GAYS IN THE MILITARY: THE "YOU CAN'T BUT YOU CAN" POLICY

Obama gives a mixed message regarding gays in the military. Which clearly shows his lack of knowledge with respect to the inner workings of the military. He advocates a repeal of the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy of Bill Clinton. But, at the same time, states that homosexuality should not be a litmus test for entry into the military.

Barack Obama says if elected president he won't require that his appointees to the Joint Chiefs of Staff support allowing gays to serve openly in the military.

The Democratic presidential front-runner favors repealing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays, which was instituted during the Clinton administration. He said his priority for the Joint Chiefs will be that they make decisions to strengthen the military and keep the country safe, not their position on the policy.

"I would never make this a litmus test for the Joint Chiefs of Staff," Obama said in an interview with The Advocate, a gay newsmagazine.

"But I think there's increasing recognition within the Armed Forces that this is a counterproductive strategy," he said. "We're spending large sums of money to kick highly qualified gays or lesbians out of our military, some of whom possess specialties like Arab-language capabilities that we desperately need. That doesn't make us more safe."
Obama wants to repeal "Don't Ask Don't Tell"

Obama's contradictory position, of course, ignores the reason the policy was wrongly imposed in the first place. Which is, that military members are overwhelming against homosexuals being allowed to serve in the military, and that without such a policy, gays would not be allowed to serve. In other words, without their acceptance being forced, there would be no acceptance at all. And Obama citing a few examples of where homosexuals can be useful in military service ignores the overall distraction they create and defies the will of our military institutions and the people who serve in them. The armed forces, more than any institution in America, require unity. Forcing service members to serve with people whom they find morally corrupt does not foster unity. And it does not make us more safe. Obama is wrong again.