{"id":2482,"date":"2010-12-06T07:46:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T07:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2010-12-06T07:46:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T07:46:43","slug":"the_numbers_behind_the_numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2482","title":{"rendered":"The Numbers Behind The Numbers On Don’t Ask Don’t Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Byron York posted an article at the Washington Examiner<\/a> last week about the new Pentagon report on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.  The report gives the impression that changing the policy concerning homosexuals openly serving in the military is no big deal to those currently serving in the military.  Well, not so fast.  When you examine the numbers more closely, you discover that there is a sharp divide between the opinions of those who serve (or have served) in combat and those who have not.  Fifty-nine percent of the Marines who have served in combat say that changing the current policy would have a negative effect.  <\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

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“According to the study, 70 percent of respondents are now or have been deployed, and 83 percent of them have been in a combat zone or an area where they received hostile fire pay.  There is simply no way to argue that they overwhelmingly support repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Bur repeal is what the president and many lawmakers want.  And civilian control of the military is a bedrock principle of the U.S. government.  If the president and Congress order service members to do something, then that’s what they are going to do.  But don’t pretend they all think it’s a good idea.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We need someone in Congress to remember that serving in the military is a privilege–not a right.  There are many reasons why a person might be told that he (or she) could not serve.  The military is there to protect and defend our country–not to be a social experiment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Byron York posted an article at the Washington Examiner last week about the new Pentagon report on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.  The report gives the impression that changing the policy concerning homosexuals openly serving in the military is no big deal … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}