Are Gays in the military a hindrance, a help, or is the entire issue ultimately inconsequential? According to Jerome Leroy of France’s Causeur, Gay troops have proven themselves for thousands of years – and in ways today’s hetero-heavy soldiers might find tremendously uncomfortable.
For Causeur, columnist Jerome Leroy writes in small part:
Gay American soldiers can finally come out of the closet. Indeed, it is little known, but there are times homosexuals seek professional fulfillment outside of the hair salon, the Culture Ministry, books published by Editions P.O.L., techno-parades and bars in Le Marais.
We’ll likely move quickly to the reactions of a few decorated brutes who’ll grieve at the idea of fielding units of faggots confronting the Taliban today and the Syrians or Iranians tomorrow. A homo in the military, that’s alright, but when there are lots of them, this, it must be said, poses a problem.
They are wrong. The end of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is a stroke of good fortune, as will be seen if one looks at things more pragmatically and strips oneself of prejudice. First things first: the American army, officially heterosexual, has taken blow after blow over recent years. …
One fights best for what one loves. Being commanded by a small Latino sergeant with garlic breath when you’re turned on by big blonds with Swedish names from Minnesota would rather tend to depress you when surrounded by overexcited Sunnis in the area of Fallujah.
The Greeks and the city of Thebes understood this perfectly. In battle, not only is homosexuality not a drawback – it’s an advantage. The Sacred Battalion, Plutarch and Polybius tell us, was considered one of the best operational units of antiquity. And like the French infantry, it was composed of pairs, but pairs in which each man was the lover of the other, which gave them additional motivation in battle.
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