@hawkeye10,
Quote:The Army has been ground into a fine pulp with our continual state of under resourced war, foisting a social engineering project on the Army and Marines now is irresponsible.
Lord you are deeply in love with that buzzwords (social engineering) are you not!!! Nice sounding words indeed to justify denying rights you and I happen to enjoy as our birthrights to others.
Let me give you a few fine examples of what had happen and the costs when you delay so call social engineering or more to the point social justice to another generation.
In 1820 at the requested of Franklin, the Congress both Senate and House met as a committee of the whole to consider ending slavery. North Carolina threatens to leave the Union and the Congress decided it was not time to end slavery.
We all know in some details the results and costs of waiting forty years for that social engineering project to occur.
After the Civil War, the Federal government under the watch of Federal troops and the Freemen Bureau force the South to allow blacks to enjoy equal rights. When the Southerners form the first version of the KKK the Northern military governments in place slam it flat.
However, we cannot have such social engineering as it was far too costly so we pull out and then allow the Southern whites to regain control at the end of hangman ropes and the barrel of shotguns.
As a result of that little delay in social engineering, tens of thousands of black men die at the end of ropes and the others have less rights then dogs.
Instead of forcing the South to cut the nonsense that blacks should not have equal rights in the 1870s we delay that social engineering project until the 1950s to the 1980s!
Thank guys as I got to see as a result the smokes and smell of burning buildings myself and hear the sound of gunfires in the near distance. Thank to people with your mind set civil rights for blacks was not a done deal by the 1880s but waited until the 1980s. You just can not rush social engineering now can you?
After blacks, citizens prove their worth on the battlefield without question in the 1860s we waited to do the needed social engineering until 1948!
Beside the insane poor used of manpower that resulted during our conflicts from 1865 to 1948 it have such amusing side effects of minor battles between blacks troops and Southern Citizens where machines guns and bombing aircrafts took part inside the city limits of American towns.
Yes, it is far too soon to grant equal rights to gay citizens as something awful might result and after all delaying Social Engineering/Social Justice never cost anything at all in the long run.