"The U.S. House of Representatives voted [last week] in favor of a bill supporting military recruitment on college campuses, prompting gay rights groups to vow to fight the bill when it moves to the Senate." That's the lead paragraph to this news story, and I can't think of a worse -- or better -- example of liberal activist myopia, and why such activists are held in disdain by so many Americans.
Yes, "don't ask, don't tell" is a terrible policy and we should lobby hard to revoke it, so that gays can serve openly in a military that holds all servicemembers to the same rules of on-duty decorum. But trying to stymie recruitment to the armed forces, while America is fighting a war on terrorism, makes me apoplectic. Do these activists really think a weaker military is the answer to discrimination? Sadly, the answer is probably yes.
And then there's the issue of recruitment bans on elite campuses themselves, which suggest that military service is best left to the less educated, non-latte drinking classes.
(IGF contributing author James Kirchick had more to say about
campus recruitment bans in this
column from the Yale Daily News.)
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