Gays in Military=Genocide, Apparently

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/03/ex-general_links_gay_troops_to.html

Bigotry at its finest:

“A retired Marine general told senators on Thursday that the Dutch Army failed to protect the city of Srebrenica during the Bosnian war partly because of the presence of gay soldiers in its armed forces.

John J. Sheehan, a former NATO commander who retired in 1997, made his comments during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy that bans gay people from openly serving in uniform.

The collapse of the Soviet Union led European militaries, including the Netherlands, to believe there was no longer a need for active combat capabilities, Sheehan said.
"As a result, they declared a peace dividend and made a conscious effort to socialize their military," he said, noting that the Dutch allowed troops to join unions and enlisted openly gay soldiers. Dutch forces were poorly led and unable to hold off Serb forces in 1995, leading to the execution of Bosnian Muslims and one of the largest European massacres since World War II, Sheehan said.”

Sheehan is so blinded by his ignorance that he fails to see the other possibility, of which he notes, that European militaries were simply not trained for active combat capabilities. Later on in the hearing he does concede to this point:
“Sheehan later clarified that the general liberalization of the Dutch military contributed to the Srebenica debacle.”

Why not just say that in the first place? Instead, Sheehan felt inclined to single out gays and lesbians as being the catalyst for a tragedy.