five other languages. she s been in the war zone a couple of times, back and forth. she s immensely capable. how will you replace that person? i can give you dozens of accounts of people were that kind of experience. people like me serving in the military, you can t replace a senior chief, you can t replace all that experience. you re talking about huge disruptions. the president, according to the white house press secretary, that it erodes military cohesion. that s an argument that s been made, frankly, for, you know, whether or not to have african-americans serving in the military, and whether to have openly gay people serving in the military, gay and lesbian people. does it affect unit cohesion? you brought up the exact points. this is the 1950s, going back to segregation, you re going to the don t ask,l era.
intervention in iraq and afghanistan. what do you think they are thinking or rethinking at this point? well, certainly you have to make, take steps, affirmative steps if you see this sort of disillusionment and discontent or isolation from the rest of the troops. i mean the troops are there together. the great thing about the military is military cohesion and unit cohesiveness, if you have somebody removed like hasan, somebody has to pick up on that. the great irony of this, jamie, he is a psychiatrist. when we see somebody normally isolated or removed, what you do in the military send them to the chaplain or psychiatrist for counseling to get a little bit of help and find out what s going on. in this case we had a bad apple. the person is supposed to be helping our troops was turning against our troops. his conduct as you nighted earlier is outrageous. saying he is embarrassed and apologizes to allah for serving alongside u.s. armed forces. unthinkable for the families of the vict
spektive. you more satisfied with nato now? i think the campaign has picked up over the last week or so. they seem to be targeting those tanks and rocket launchers around misrata that have caused a lot of killing and a lot of loss of life. things are better but i think people are calling for the intensity of these attacks to be speeded up even more so that they can totally protect civilians and neutralize gadhafi s forces. the west and nato have been concerned about, though, from the rebel side, is that there s no military cohesion, necessarily. you have a couple of generals fighting each other for the top spot. that s a real problem, isn t it? no. there is in problem at the command center in benghazi. really? eunice is in overall charge. the reports from our correspondents on the ground is part of the problem with the rebels is that you haven t been able to be as cohesive. the main fighting is now in the west of libya, misrata, it is the western mountain.
concerns to me privately that he expressed publicly during his testimony. he said there could be disruptions as a consequence of this, and what i said to him was that i was confident looking at the history of the military, with respect to racial integration, with respect to the inclusion of women in our armed forces, that that could be managed and that was confirmed by the attitudenal studies that was done prior to this vote. and what he assured me of, and what all of these service chiefs have assured me of, is that regardless of their concerns about disruptions, they were confident that they could implement this policy without it affecting our military cohesion and good discipline and readiness. and i take them at their word. and i ve spoken to them since the vote took place, and they
testimony saying there could be disruptions as a consequence of this and what i said to him was i was confident looking at the history of the military with respect to racial integration and then collusion of women the including of women in the forts forces, that was done prior to this vote and he assured me, and what all the service chiefs have assured me, is that regardless of their concerns about disruptions, they were confident they could implement this policy without it affecting our military cohesion and good discipline and readiness. and i take them at their word and i have spoken to them since the vote and they have all said that we are going to implement this smartly and swiftly.