Marine General, Peter Pace, expressed the official view of the US militaryhis personal opinion that gays are immoral, and shouldn't be allowed to fight. Given that the Australian armed forces, and probably the British, Spanish and other allies allow gays in their military, it seems to me Gen. Pace is making a statement about who should be permitted to fight alongside the US...
I think we should return the favour. Any armed forces that has Gen. Pace in it is clearly an immoral and dissipated organisation, and we should simply refuse to fight alongside him.
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"You're telling me ... you're telling me that I'm not moral enough to join the army, burn villages, kill women and kids because I've been convicted of littering??"
Or words to that effect ...
I want to kill. I want to kill. I want to eat dead burnt bodies, I want to kill!
Here, wear this medal. You're our boy.
A military commander has the same duty of loyalty to his subordinates as they do to their superiors. Pace's attitude towards a large number of the men and women for whom he is ultimately responsible, in my view, makes him unfit for high command.