Let Obama Be Clear: He Will Repeal DADT Someday

The AP reports:

President Barack Obama pledged to end the ban on homosexuals serving openly in the military in a speech Saturday, but acknowledged to a cheering crowd that the policy changes he promised on the campaign trail are not coming as quickly as they expected.

"I will end 'don't ask-don't tell,'" Obama said at the annual dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay civil rights advocacy group. Obama reaffirmed his commitment to end the ban, but did not give a timetable or the specifics that some activists have called for.

There are so many Nobel-worthy "aspirations" for which this administration cannot give a timetable or specifics (and even the aspirations with timetables, like closing Gitmo, aren't coming quite as quickly as expected), but maybe the president could make a decision about the war in Afghanistan before making any big decisions about the social experiments the Democratic party would like to conduct with the U.S. troops now fighting there as their guinea pigs.

James Bowman argued against any change to the policy in last week's issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD.