Filed Under: Why Bother?

Remember those military personnel, over 50 of them, who spoke fluent Arabic but were nevertheless kicked out of the military in recent years becuase they were gay. Couldn't we have let some of them help out at the Bagdahd Embassy where there are only 10 out 200 Foreign Service Officers, including the Ambassador, who are fluent in Arabic? Oh hell, what's does it really matter how many Arabic speakers we have working for us while we're occupying a couple of countries in the Middle East. After all, here in America we twice elected a president who can barely even speak English.