U.S. Army Journal Publishes Professor's Critique of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Policy on Gay Soldiers

HE ASKED, THEN TOLD: Ten years after Bill Clinton went head-to-head with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and prominent members of Congress to allow openly homosexual soldiers to serve in the military, Aaron C. Belkin wondered if the nation should revisit the resulting "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

"In many ways, it was a politically expedient policy that pleased no one," writes the assistant professor of political science at the University of California at Santa Barbara, in a journal

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