But is there any risk to keeping it for the time being<\/a>?\u00a0 If there isn\u2019t, then even a little risk is a risk.\u00a0 Is that worth it at this time.\u00a0 Are we ready to implode, loose, be run out of town on a rail, due to not allowing gays in the military?\u00a0 I\u2019m just wondering, since I\u2019m getting mixed signals from out of the military about this issue.\u00a0 Since I\u2019ve heard the military is all political anyway (or at least I\u2019ve heard it off and on since I was a youngster in high school in the 1980s), I\u2019m having a hard time pinning down just what is and isn\u2019t good.\u00a0 Of course from a moral point of view, not to mention a logical point of view, there are issues.\u00a0 But common sense, logic, and morality tend not to be\u00a0big issues in our political posturing nowadays.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But is there any risk to keeping it for the time being?\u00a0 If there isn\u2019t, then even a little risk is a risk.\u00a0 Is that worth it at this time.\u00a0 Are we ready to implode, loose, be run out of town on a rail, due to not allowing gays in the military?\u00a0 I\u2019m just wondering, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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