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2015-06-09 Home Front: Culture Wars

Openly gay Eric Fanning is Leading Army Sec Candidate

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-06-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 "I've returned USA to being the most respected country in the World"

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-06-09 00:25|| 2015-06-09 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 ...I don't particularly care who/what someone sleeps with (with the caveat that everybody involved is a consenting adult)as long as they can do a given job. Trouble here is that no matter how good a SecArmy Mr Fanning may be, his appointment is going to be seen as a sign that there's a new protected class in town, and every single decision he makes is going to be seen in that light.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2015-06-09 08:27|| 2015-06-09 08:27|| Front Page Top

#3 The aversion to gays in positions of high trust and security goes back to the famous Riedel case in Hungary. A Austro-Hungarian Colonel named Riedel took a liking to a young handsome Russian cavalry officer/military attaché in Budapest and essentially sold Austro-Hungary down the river by giving the young Russian officer all of their war plans in exchange for his "favors."

Of course, if a guy is out of the closet, you really can't blackmail him about his sexual orientation...British Intelligence and the CIA suffered some catastrophe security breaches by gays in high places particularly with regard to the A-Bomb...most notably being Philby and his boyfriend in British Intelligence.

Still I think Mike has hit on something with regard to the perception of favoritism.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2015-06-09 08:36|| 2015-06-09 08:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Mike. You are wrong. One of the parms in being able to do the job is the impact on other peoiple and if the people in the military don't think well about being un der the authority of a gay (and possibly being oredered to do more sensitivity training instead of the kind of training who prevents of you returning in a boduy bag) and recruitment plummets then that person is not fit for the job.

Posted by JFM 2015-06-09 08:50|| 2015-06-09 08:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Is anyone appointed in this administration qualified beyond the party patronage and EEO circus criteria?

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-06-09 09:45|| 2015-06-09 09:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Not fabulous?

Posted by Raj 2015-06-09 09:59|| 2015-06-09 09:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Is anyone appointed in this administration qualified beyond the party patronage and EEO circus criteria? Posted by Procopius2k

Not if it can be helped.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-06-09 11:07|| 2015-06-09 11:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Is anyone appointed in this administration qualified beyond the party patronage and EEO circus criteria? Posted by Procopius2k

That's the whole point, isn't it? Everything Baraq has done since taking office has been designed to weaken this country and hasten our decline.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-06-09 11:54|| 2015-06-09 11:54|| Front Page Top

#9 "No selection has been made," said Pentagon spokesman Brent Colburn. "This will be a presidential decision."

In other words, a shoo-in.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-06-09 16:35|| 2015-06-09 16:35|| Front Page Top

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