More Calls to Apologize
The calls for an apology from General Peter Pace continue.
This morning's New York Times editorial opines:
"By refusing to apologize, General Pace compounded the injury and reminded the entire country of what happened the last time the top brass took on this subject. It was Gen. Colin Powell's public rebuke of a new president, Bill Clinton, for even entertaining the idea of allowing homosexuals to serve openly that led to the ''don't ask, don't tell'' policy."
The Times goes on to say that, "General Pace is wrong in every way, and out of step. An increasing number of Americans in and out of the military now recognize that the current policy is indefensible. Those Americans include Gen. John Shalikashvili, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs when the benighted policy was adopted. In an Op-Ed article in this newspaper in January, General Shalikashvili wrote that conversations with gay soldiers and marines had showed him ''that gays and lesbians can be accepted by their peers."
"General Pace should still apologize for his remarks, forthrightly," the editorial board says. "Then perhaps some good could come out of his bigoted remarks if they added to the growing movement on Capitol Hill to finally allow gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military."
Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Toles also weighs in with a letter of his own (above). "I find it tasteless," Toles writes.
General Pace: It is past time to apologize.
- Steve RallsLabels: Pace
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