{"id":189491,"date":"2010-03-20T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/20\/the-face-of-the-opposition-to-repealing-dont-ask-dont-tell\/"},"modified":"2010-03-20T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T01:16:00","slug":"the-face-of-the-opposition-to-repealing-dont-ask-dont-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/20\/the-face-of-the-opposition-to-repealing-dont-ask-dont-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Face of the Opposition to Repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former NATO SACEUR<\/span>, John Sheehan<\/span>, has mad the claim that The Srebrenica<\/span> massacre happened because the Dutch allow gays to serve openly<\/a> to the Senate Armed Services Community:<\/p>\n

Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende<\/span> attacked on Friday claims by a retired U.S. general that Dutch forces were overrun in Srebrenica<\/span> in 1995 because of the presence of gay soldiers.<\/p>\n

At a U.S. congressional hearing on Thursday on allowing gay soldiers to serve openly in the military, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander John Sheehan<\/span> said there was a causal link between having homosexuals in the Dutch forces and the Srebrenica<\/span> massacre during the Bosnian war.<\/p>\n

“The remarks were outrageous, wrong and beneath contempt,” Balkenende<\/span> told a news conference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So is retired General John Sheehan<\/span>.<\/p>\n

He apparently cites the general who was fired for the deaths of civilians, something that does not<\/span> happen in today’s US military.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that there was a far simpler reason, that there were only 450 troops, armed with light weapons, deployed to protect the city<\/a>, and the man he quotes denies every saying this<\/span>:<\/p>\n

Dutch television reported that when he was pressed to name a source in the Dutch military, General Sheehan<\/span> said that he was basing his remarks on what someone named \u201cHankman<\/span> Berman<\/span>\u201d had told him. The Dutch Defense Ministry guessed that this was a reference to Gen. Henk<\/span> van den Breemen<\/span>, the country\u2019s former chief of defense staff. On Friday the ministry issued a statement saying that General van den Breemen<\/span>, now retired, called this \u201cabsolute nonsense,\u201d since he did not believe that the presence of gay troops had anything to do with what happened at Srebrenica<\/span> and had never said any such thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The problem here is that, beginning with Bill Clinton’s capitulation to Colin Powell’s insubordination on gays in the military in 1992 and 1993, Democratic presidents have allowed insubordination<\/span>, particularly on this issue<\/span>, from the military, and so now we have an increasingly radicalized culture in the military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former NATO SACEUR, John Sheehan, has mad the claim that The Srebrenica massacre happened because the Dutch allow gays to serve openly to the Senate Armed Services Community: Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende attacked on Friday claims by a retired U.S. general that Dutch forces were overrun in Srebrenica in 1995 because of the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,971,1030,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-civil-rights","category-lgbtq","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}