A couple years ago, I was listening to talk radio and heard the most bizarre statement from one caller:
Gays should be able to serve in the military. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is a bad policy because it hurts people and gets rid of people with skills the military needs. But we shouldn’t repeal it, because the policy is working.That’s a paraphrase of what she said, but the gist is intact.
This was conservative talk radio, I think, and/or it was at the very end of the show, so the caller’s viewpoint was not challenged. But you have to wonder what this woman’s definition of “working” is, how she can mesh those contradictory ideas.
(Sure, the rocks in the bottom of my dishwasher break all the glasses and chip the plates, but I’m not going to remove them, because by God, the stuff comes out clean!)
Or: even more likely: it's so rare that something makes any progress toward its goals that we should keep it no matter how fucked-up the goals.
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