Promises, promises

Posted by J.D. On Friday, November 21, 2008 0 comments
In the earlier The Obama-Biden Plan, I wrote about the various promises being made by Obama and Biden. One of them is quoted below:

Repeal Don't Ask-Don't Tell: Barack Obama agrees with former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff John Shalikashvili and other military experts that we need to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The key test for military service should be patriotism, a sense of duty, and a willingness to serve. Discrimination should be prohibited. The U.S. government has spent millions of dollars replacing troops kicked out of the military because of their sexual orientation. Additionally, more than 300 language experts have been fired under this policy, including more than 50 who are fluent in Arabic. Obama will work with military leaders to repeal the current policy and ensure it helps accomplish our national defense goals.


Except that one is already being "delayed".

President-elect Barack Obama will not move for months, and perhaps not until 2010, to ask Congress to end the military's decades-old ban on open homosexuals in the ranks, two people who have advised the Obama transition team on this issue say.

Repealing the ban was an Obama campaign promise. However, Mr. Obama first wants to confer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his new political appointees at the Pentagon to reach a consensus and then present legislation to Congress, the advisers said.


..which is a kind of a nice way of saying "it turns out we are wusses".

As I noted previously, there are already more than 100 retired generals and admirals calling for the repeal of that policy but the Obama team somehow feels that they should wait and craft a consensus?

They call it "building consensus". I call it "already breaking campaign promises".

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