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Book Review
This comes to you by way of "The Daily Show" (if you can see the ep online, I strongly suggest that you do so):
Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America
by Nathaniel Frank
The following review/description is from amazon:
When the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy emerged as a political compromise under Bill Clinton in 1993, it only ended up worsening the destructive gay ban that had been on the books since World War II. Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Nathaniel Frank exposes the military’s policy toward gays and lesbians as damaging and demonstrates that “don’t ask, don’t tell” must be replaced with an outright reversal of the gay ban.
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Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America
by Nathaniel Frank
The following review/description is from amazon:
When the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy emerged as a political compromise under Bill Clinton in 1993, it only ended up worsening the destructive gay ban that had been on the books since World War II. Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Nathaniel Frank exposes the military’s policy toward gays and lesbians as damaging and demonstrates that “don’t ask, don’t tell” must be replaced with an outright reversal of the gay ban.
( Read more... )