Military dismissing fewer homosexuals

The number of U.S. military members discharged for making it known they are homosexual declined last year by 15 percent and has fallen by nearly one-half since 2001, the Pentagon said Friday. (source)

Of course they are dismissing fewer gays from the military. They need them for the war. But after Bush’s little war in Iraq is over (or when they get killed), it will no longer need the gay soldiers.

My question is this. Gays are discharged from the service if it becomes known that they are gay, as stated in the rules of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. One of the founding arguments of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was to maintain “unit cohesion”. It was argued successfully that allowing openly gay service members to serve in the military would damage that unit cohesion. So, don’t they need unit cohesion in time of war? Or could it be that having gays in the military was never hurting unit cohesion. Perhaps it was always about simple bigotry.

You think? Do you feel used yet?