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A retired Marine general told senators Thursday that the Dutch army failed to protect the city of Srebrenica during the Bosnian war partly because of the presence of gay soldiers in its armed forces.
John J. Sheehan, a former NATO commander who retired in 1997, made his comments during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which bans gay people from openly serving in uniform.
Jon Western points out that we actually know exactly what went wrong at Srebrenica, and it didn’t have a lot to do with sexual orientation. Erik Voeten points out that the Dutch contingent in Afghanistan is doing much better - same integrated military, different political context.
The retired Dutch general who Sheehan named as his source was quoted this morning as saying Sheehan’s claim was complete nonsense.”
Indeed.
Apparently being able to understand the difference between a cause and an effect isn’t required to be a general in the US military.
Plus, the Dutch integrated their military before the Soviet Union collapsed.
Just how could including gays in the army lead to a massacre of civilians under the army’s protection? What would be the mechanism by which something like that could occur? Were all the Dutch soldiers too busy having sex to fight, or what?
According to Sheehan, it seems the reverse might have occurred: his argument is that integration made Dutch soldiers all go soft and unable to perform when when the shit hit the fan.
In other words, the Dutch military was destroyed by gay cooties.
I’d have liked the chance to ask some follow-up questions:
Aren’t you aware, General, that there are currently homosexuals serving in the US military? And that there have been likely since the founding of the country? So you must think that the US armed forces are soft, yes? Oh, that’s *not* what you meant? Let me ask, General: was the US military made more effective when gay translators of Arabic were discharged? Did that help advance our objectives in Iraq? Hm. Just how did you get to be a general, anyway?
Yeah, you’d be disappointed by the results of asking him questions, I bet.
I know he was 5 kinds of wrong, but I literally fell off my couch laughing at Sheehan’s response to the Congressman’s question, ‘Have you commanded black soldiers?’
He referred to the many kinds of Americans he commanded as including, and I quote, “Blacks, whites, Mexican Hispanics and Orientals”.
When assaulting an enemy position, a good Marine always has a vase and a rug with him! What kind of person says ‘Oriental’ in reference to a human being?
Well, it depends what you mean by “result.”
This General sounds like he’s reading from a recently unearthed Terry Southern script. Did he referance “precious bodily fluids.”?
That’s also why Israel has been wiped off the map and British armed forces were unable to settle a single city in Iraq…
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Sheehan was entirely correct, other than getting the Dutch general’s name wrong, misquoting him, and mistaking a Monty Python sketch for reality.
I was thinking more of this.
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