Two strippers as chiefs

Last week, Al Gore said he'd require any appointee to the U.S. armed
forces Joint Chiefs of Staff to agree in advance to allow homosexuals to
serve openly in our military.

When asked about Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, here's how
he responded: "I would insist before appointing anybody to the Joint
Chiefs of Staff that the individual support my policy. And, yes, I would
make that a requirement."

After enduring the next 48 hours of heavy incoming fire, the vice
president stumbled out of his bunker and told millions of Americans
they'd misheard. He weasel-worded that he "did not mean to imply that
there should ever be any kind of inquiry into the personal political
opinions of the officers."

Millions of Americans "misheard"? I don't think so.

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Clearly, Gore lied. But what's new? He lied about his combat service
in Vietnam when he said he'd been there and done that grunt stuff, lied
about plowing the back 40 on his daddy's tobacco farm and now is lying
about what our ears transmitted to our brains.

Sure, most politicians lie. But to lie so blatantly about an issue so
critical to our security and then have the chutzpah to say we got it
wrong is even more insulting than usual.

My take is that, like President Lyndon Johnson, Gore has issues with
the brass. I reckon what we witnessed on television was the real Gore
caught dead in the center of a subconscious slip. He's on record when he
was a soldier in Vietnam for calling his officers "fascists" and driving
his buddies nuts over how much he hated the Army.

Granted the Army drill must've been hard for a Harvard graduate -- an
enlisted man who'd led a privileged life of servants and private
schools. The son of a rich and powerful senator wouldn't exactly be
thrilled with an outfit that made him get up at o'dark hundred, stand in
line in the rain, eat out of a mess kit and shout, "How high, sir?" when
told to jump.

Things got better once Gore got to Vietnam. There his basic weapon
was a Remington typewriter, and the headquarters' snack bar was
light-years away from the trenches where the daily fighting and dying
occurred. He was special: the only enlisted man in Vietnam with his own
bodyguard.

Gore's senator daddy also got his son's 12-month tour cut to five by
leaning on a political general. The unconnected, of course, served a
minimum of 12 months unless they went out Purple Heart early on a
stretcher or in a body bag.

So it's easy to see why he wants generals and admirals who'll
go-along-to-get-along, advisers to expedite his political agenda and
help scoop up the homosexual vote -- while finishing off our armed
forces.

But it's critical that the service chiefs and the chairman of the
J.C. of S. be their own men, not presidential lap dogs. They must be
selected because they're the best in the armed forces to win wars, not
because they'll be the president's personal yes-men.

The chiefs were just so politicized and manipulated by LBJ during the
Vietnam War. And as a result of LBJ's anti-brass paranoia, his lies to
the public and the service chiefs' dereliction of duty, we lost our
first war and have a black monument in Washington, D.C., inscribed with
the names of 58,000 sacrificial lambs.

There's already been too much compromise and not enough standing tall
by the chiefs and the rest of our brass hats. In the last seven years,
not one serving senior officer has challenged the Clinton-Gore agenda --
pushing political correctness and committing our forces on wrongheaded
missions -- that's led to the near destruction of our military.

If Gore becomes the prez, I bet a six-pack not one serving admiral
and general will sell his or her soul for a chief's job if it means
going along with Gore's open-homosexuality-in-the-ranks scenario.
There'll be an avalanche of resignations instead.

And then a bunch of very liberal corporals will be brought in to take
over the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Finally, the Clinton-Gore demolition job
on the armed forces will be complete!

It just might be expedient to learn Chinese.