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DADT Bad- Diminishes Troop LevelsDADT Repeal Key To Increase Troop Levels Welsh 10 (Nick Welsh is a a staff writer for the Santa Barbara Independent. July 15, 2010. “Doing Away with ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ How UCSB’s Palm Center Is Winning the War Against Gay Discrimination in the Military” July 22, 2010.) It’s only a matter of time before the controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy governing gays in the military is buried once and for all. When that day comes, Aaron Belkin’s fingerprints will be all over the shovel. For the past 12 years, the political science professor has run the Palm Center at UCSB, a small think tank of scholars and lawyers focused on the fate of sexual minorities within the military. The situation, they soon found, was cruelly absurd and gratuitously self-defeating. At the same time the United States was waging two full-blown wars across the globe, the military was kicking out nearly 14,000 servicemen and -women for violating the dangerously nebulous terms of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” including more than 50 skilled translators — many fluent in Arabic — who had not securely locked themselves in the closet. In some cases, mere possession of a k.d. lang album or a Dinah Shore Golf Classic poster was sufficient cause to launch internal investigations. Meanwhile, the American military — strapped for qualified personnel and forced to relax admission qualifications — allowed more than 4,000 convicted felons to enlist. The “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy first arose in 1993 as a compromise between the Clinton White House and Republican leaders, the Christian Coalition, and key Southern Democrats, who were threatening a total ban on gays in the military. Back then, such high-profile players as General Colin Powell and Senator Sam Nunn argued that allowing out-of-the-closet homosexuals in the military would prove detrimental to the “unit cohesion” required by military discipline. Courtesy PalmCenter.org Over time, both Powell and Nunn would come to disavow that argument, but they didn’t have much of a choice. The research unearthed by Belkin and other scholars with the Palm Center exposed that there was no factual basis for the “unit cohesion” argument. More damningly, they found there never had been. If anything, they found that “don’t ask, don’t tell” was far more corrosive on military morale due to the capricious persecution that ensued. Even more startling, the Palm Center also revealed that 25 other modern militaries had allowed openly gay men and women to serve without suffering any loss of morale or cohesion. Military Unity Key to Win Afghanistan- Act As One Team RIECHMANN 10( Deb Riechmann is a Staff Writer for the AP. “Gen. Petraeus calls for unity in Afghanistan war.” July 2, 2010. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/07/03/general-as-afghanistan_7741376.html?boxes=Homepagebusinessnews. July 22, 2010.) Gen. David Petraeus, the new commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, called Saturday for unity in the civilian and military effort to turn back the Taliban, saying, "In this important endeavor, cooperation is not optional." In his first public comments since he arrived Friday night to assume command of the international military mission in Afghanistan, Petraeus said he would work to improve coordination between troops on the battlefield and civilians trying to bolster the Afghan government and improve the lives of the people. His predecessor, Gen. Stanley ( SXE - news - people ) McChrystal, was fired last month for intemperate remarks that he and his aides made to Rolling Stone magazine about Obama administration officials, mostly on the civilian side. "Civilian and military, Afghanistan and international, we are part of one team with one mission," Petraeus told about 1,700 invited guests, including Afghan government and military and police officials gathered at the U.S. Embassy for a pre-Fourth of July celebration marking American independence. His message to the Afghans in the audience: "Your success is our success." Petraeus, widely credited with turning around the U.S. war effort in Iraq, is taking over the 130,000-member NATO-led international force at a time of rising violence and growing doubts in Washington and other allied capitals about the effectiveness of the counterinsurgency strategy, which Petraeus pioneered. June was the deadliest month for the allied force since the war began in October 2001 with 102 deaths, more than half of them Americans. DADT BAD- DiscriminationDADT Repeal Solves Military Discrimination Brown 10(Laura Douglas-Brown is a staff writer for Southern Voice Newspaper and an Emory University graduate. “U.S. House, Senate committee vote to repeal DADT.”June 11, 2010. http://www.thegavoice.com/index.php/news/national-news-menu/508-us-house-senate-committee-vote-to-repeal-dadt. July 20, 2010.) Efforts to repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy gained significant momentum May 27 when both the U.S. House and the Senate Armed Services Committee passed amendments to repeal the ban. “Just like the military helped end segregation based on race, we should have put an end to ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ long ago. It is an affront to human dignity and to the dignity and the worth of every man and woman serving in our military,” U.S. Rep. John Lewis said during debate on the House floor. “We cannot wait. We cannot be patient,” Lewis said. “We must end discrimination in the military, and we must end it now. Discrimination is wrong, and we must end it now.” Both the House and Senate efforts would add “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal to the massive Defense Department authorization bill. The Defense bill still has to pass the full Senate, where debate could begin as early as June 18, and some Republicans, including Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), have threatened filibuster. How Georgia’s U.S. House delegation voted YES on repeal DEMOCRATS District 4: Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Lithonia) District 5: Rep. John Lewis (D-Atlanta) District 12: Rep. John Barrow (D-Savannah) District 13: Rep. David Scott (D-Atlanta) REPUBLICANS none NO on repeal DEMOCRATS District 2: Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-Albany) District 8: Rep. Jim Marshall (D-Macon) REPUBLICANS District 1: Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Savannah) District 3: Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Grantville) District 6: Rep. Tom Price (R-Roswell) District 7: Rep. John Linder (R-Duluth) District 10: Rep. Paul Broun (R-Athens) District 11: Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Marietta) Note: District 9 seat is vacant After the Senate, the bill would then go through a conference committee to resolve any differences between the House and Senate versions, and then the House and Senate would have to vote to approve conference report, according to Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, before it would go to President Obama for signing. The full U.S. House voted 234-194 May 27 in favor of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal amendment, which was sponsored by Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.) and needed 217 votes to pass. Only five Republicans voted in favor of repeal, while 26 Democrats voted against it. All of the Republicans in Georgia’s delegation voted against repeal. Two Democrats from Georgia, Reps. Sanford Bishop and Jim Marshall, were among the 26 Democrats who crossed party lines to oppose repeal. Kingston said he opposes repealing “ Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” because it would somehow lead to recognizing gay marriage. “With homosexuals serving openly in the military … there would be no option but to recognize a man’s husband or a woman’s wife and to provide spousal benefits thus contradicting the federal law,” he said in a press release. Kingston also suggested chucking DADT would “lead to further acts of censorship and a clamp down against religious freedom.” “What happens when clerics are told they can no longer preach against a practice their faith tells them is wrong,” Kingston asked. Bishop issued a statement explaining that he voted against repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” through the Defense bill, even though he supports repeal, because he wanted Congress to wait until a Pentagon study is complete. “I agree with the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the time has come to repeal the current ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy, which dishonors men and women who are willing to give their lives in service to our country and also prevents capable men and women with vital skills from serving in the armed forces. However, I believe a vote today is premature,” Bishop said. Directory: files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Integer programming and game theory files -> 4 Integer Programming files -> Bpa vehicle Window Repair Scenario #1 task: Procure vehicle window relacement. 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