By Michael Crawford

You don’t have to be all that smart to get how dumb it is that more than 50 military-trained Arabic linguists have been fired for being gay when we are fighting two wars in countries were the predominant language is Arabic. In all, some 12,000 soldiers have been kicked out of the military for being gay or just being rumored to be gay. That’s one of the reasons I don’t understand Republican presidential candidate John McCain statement on repealing the current ban on openly gay and lesbian soldiers:

“So I think it would be a terrific mistake to even reopen the issue. It is working my friends. The policy is working.”

I mean seriously. 9/11 happened in part because our intelligence agencies did not have enough trained Arabic linguists to translate the backlog of intercepted messages and McCain supports the firing of dozens of Arabic specialists because they may be a little too attached to their collection of Madonna memorabilia?

More than 25 of our allied countries including our international BFF Great Britain allow gay and lesbian soldiers to serve openly and proudly while McCain wants the military to continue engaging in witchhunts, electronic snooping and gossip-mongering.

We can do better than that.

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