[Peace-discuss] Questionable IP on DN

[David Green]

Again, Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez to easily indulge the notion that a 
challenge to "don't ask, don't tell" is somehow a victory for ...... Democratic 
Party Identity Politics?? Or, more fundamentally, fails to challenge the notion 
that "equality" for gays in the military can be separated from larger issues of 
life, death, and capitalism. 


Predictably, from a Senior Editor at The Nation:

RICHARD KIM: So, you know, the Log Cabin Republicans were the people who brought 
forward this case, and they’re actually urging people in the military to not 
come out yet, because there might be an appeal. But what you saw here is really 
the party of no; the Republican Party is really the party of homophobia. When 
Obama came to office, he campaigned, in part, on getting rid of Don’t Ask, Don’t 
Tell. He put in place a review in the military, legislation in the last defense 
appropriations bill that would have gotten rid of it. Senator John McCain 
filibustered it. And not one—not one—Republican member of the Senate moved over 
to the Democratic side to break the filibuster.
 
So, what you’re seeing here is really the courts being the avenue of last 
recourse. And the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress, wanting to do 
this legislatively, they were stopped by the filibuster. And the courts 
consistently, whether it’s on issues of marriage or Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell or 
employment, have been really the avenue of last recourse, because there’s been 
no legislative progress on this.
 
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/13/while_celebrating_halt_to_dont_ask


      
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