Ethics

Nunn: "Take Another Look" at DADT

By Ed Brayton

Sam Nunn, former Democratic senator from Georgia, says he thinks it's time to take another look at the military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, which he favored as chairman of the armed services committee in the 90s:

Former Georgia senator Sam Nunn, who helped push through the 1993 "don't ask, don't tell" law that established the terms under which gays and lesbians could serve in the U.S. military, said Tuesday that it's time to review the policy.

"I think [when] 15 years go by on any personnel policy, it's appropriate to take another look at it -- see how it's working, ask the hard questions, hear from the military. Start with a Pentagon study," Nunn said.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 06, 2008 (boomark / email).