Military Attitudes

Some friends and I ended up discussing the issue of allowing gays in the military, specifically because "between 1998 and 2004, 20 relatively rare Arabic speakers and six Farsi speakers were forcibly discharged after they were found to be gay." The quote is from an Economist article I found when trying to cite the statistic. The discussion was prompted by this Fred Kaplan Slate article bemoaning the bureacratic slowness with which the pentagon is deciding how to make sure more soldiers know Arabic. The quote that's interesting to me, from the Economist: " According to a recent poll of enlisted men, more than half thought gays should be allowed in the armed forces."