Marine Maj. Stewart Upton, a Pentagon spokesman, said the Defense Department is enforcing the law [after dismissing more gay arabic linguists].
"The Department of Defense must ensure that the standards for enlistment and appointment of members of the armed forces reflect the policies set forth by Congress," he said, adding that those dismissed can serve their nation by working as contractors or at other federal agencies.
Every now and then you get a glimpse of current reality as seen through the rear-view mirror. In the long struggle for freedom, how many minority groups have heard the injunction, "If you don't like it here, you can always go elsewhere?"
Al-qaeda is on the lips of the President, even to the point of being crassly extolled at a commencement ceremony where few were probably inspired by his seemingly out-of-place words, yet we throw away this generation's "code talkers".
Civil rights IS "readiness".
