By David Mixner-
Yesterday was like a flashback from a bad political acid trip.
United States Marine Commandant James Conway, who is doing his best to undercut "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", suggested that there might have to be separate barracks for homosexual troops. In one swift moment, the commandant transported me back 17 years to 1993. In fact, this entire process is beginning to look like a repeat performance of 1993.
Trust me, that is not good news.
In 1993, President Bill Clinton, caught in a firestorm the first month of his presidency, called for six months of 'study and review' in order to placate the military and to hopefully build support for allowing gays in the military. Under the ample leadership of now deceased Tom Stoddard, the "Campaign for Military Service" was formed to support the President with such strong backers as David Geffen, Barry Diller, Bob Shrum, Marylouise Oates, Greg Craig and so many others. By March, the President led by Senator Sam Nunn visited the USS Roosevelt and allowed himself to be pulled into the tight living quarters on the ship. In a notorious front page picture, Nunn made his bigoted, Neanderthal point that homosexuals and straights could not share these quarters.
Clinton then suggested segregated living quarters for homosexual troops and received a firestorm of protest. Meanwhile, the military leaders and people like Sam Nunn used this 'study and review' period to build up pressure that led to DADT.
Sound familiar?
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