The Face of the Opposition to Repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell

Former NATO SACEUR, John Sheehan, has mad the claim that The Srebrenica massacre happened because the Dutch allow gays to serve openly to the Senate Armed Services Community:

Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende attacked on Friday claims by a retired U.S. general that Dutch forces were overrun in Srebrenica in 1995 because of the presence of gay soldiers.

At a U.S. congressional hearing on Thursday on allowing gay soldiers to serve openly in the military, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander John Sheehan said there was a causal link between having homosexuals in the Dutch forces and the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian war.

"The remarks were outrageous, wrong and beneath contempt," Balkenende told a news conference.

So is retired General John Sheehan.

He apparently cites the general who was fired for the deaths of civilians, something that does not happen in today's US military.

It should be noted that there was a far simpler reason, that there were only 450 troops, armed with light weapons, deployed to protect the city, and the man he quotes denies every saying this:

Dutch television reported that when he was pressed to name a source in the Dutch military, General Sheehan said that he was basing his remarks on what someone named “Hankman Berman” had told him. The Dutch Defense Ministry guessed that this was a reference to Gen. Henk van den Breemen, the country’s former chief of defense staff. On Friday the ministry issued a statement saying that General van den Breemen, now retired, called this “absolute nonsense,” since he did not believe that the presence of gay troops had anything to do with what happened at Srebrenica and had never said any such thing.

The problem here is that, beginning with Bill Clinton's capitulation to Colin Powell's insubordination on gays in the military in 1992 and 1993, Democratic presidents have allowed insubordination, particularly on this issue, from the military, and so now we have an increasingly radicalized culture in the military.