"Some French minister," the (McChrystal) aide tells me. "It's fucking gay."

[Bluebear]

Who's he going to dinner with?" I ask one of his aides. "Some French minister," the aide tells me. "It's fucking gay."

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/06/the-rolling-stone-articles-juiciest-bits/58503/

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Yay! Let's poll the military and do a study to see if they "agree" with serving next to gay troops.

[donco6]

1. Did they just feel they could stay this stuff with impunity?

Who did they think they were talking to, and what did they think would happen to it?

If he thinks he's anything but a dumbass amateur, he's kidding himself. Managing information is as important as managing the actual fighting. And he wasn't even TRYING to manage the info here.

[maxsolomon]

2. "gay" in the "gay 90's" sense.

or the jr. high sense.

[spanone]

3. stanley appears to be a real piece of work....and an asshole

[tnlefty]

4. Let's not and say we did.

I see your thread is back to zero.

I can't rec. it again.

[SunnySong]

5. Apparently his aides are all 13 year old boys.... nt

[katsy]

6. From the article you cited:

"But however strategic they may be, McChrystal's new marching orders have
caused an intense backlash among his own troops. Being told to hold their fire,
soldiers complain, puts them in greater danger. "Bottom line?" says a former Special
Forces operator who has spent years in Iraq and Afghanistan. "I would love
to kick McChrystal in the nuts. His rules of engagement put soldiers' lives in even
greater danger. Every real soldier will tell you the same thing."


I really hate this war. Some murder monkeys are angry because they can't kill everything in sight? There is something seriously warped in the people growing up in this country. How did we ever create such twisted beings?

[VMI Dem]

7. Isn't it a great idea. Why end DADT immediately?

This type of input is obviously valuable to someone.

[Bigmack]

8. Erase the word "gay"...

and fill it in with any ethnic minority word used pejoratively. Could the aide get away with it? Doubt it.

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. He went to dinner with The gay?

[saltpoint]

10. It's hard to follow the logic of bigotry.

One could read it as a comment on the sexual identity of a specific minister from France.

Or that any truck at all with ministers is 'gay,' which would appear to be untrue, whether the ministers are political, or religious, or both.

Or that consorting with people from France is in and of itself gay, or that it is NOT gay unless you're going to have dinner with them. It would suggest, it seems to me, that it would not be rational to imagine, let alone accomplish, dinner with a straight person from France whether he or she is or is not a minister, although it seems far more likely that straight people from France likely have dinner all the time. Maybe even every day.

Perhaps I am being too cavalier in dismissing the possibility that someone could arrange a dinner meeting with a minster from France and then proceed therefrom to having gay sex right there on the table, dinner crepes flying asunder. Clearly I'm being too limited in my observations, as this is at least possible. It seems generally unlikely, because a lot of people, whether they're from France or not, like BOTH sex and dining, and why not have dinner first and THEN retire to the bedroom? This is just a suggestion, of course. I don't mean to be pushy. If people crave sex over a plateful of mashed potatoes and gravy and peas, who am I, really, to question their set and setting? Life is short, after all, and you can always make more crepes.

Finally, it does suggest that political, religious, and military figures would be most wise to schedule dinner meetings only with celibate or eunuch Germans or Bolivians or Koreans so as not to trigger verbal bigotry on the part of certain aides.

[Poboy]

11. Funny stuff. -nt