{"id":492888,"date":"2010-03-31T09:48:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T13:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80990"},"modified":"2010-03-31T09:48:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T13:48:56","slug":"so-maybe-gay-dutch-soldiers-didn%e2%80%99t-cause-the-srebrenica-massacre-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/492888","title":{"rendered":"So Maybe Gay Dutch Soldiers Didn\u2019t Cause the Srebrenica Massacre After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Marine Gen. Jack Sheehan embarrassed himself\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/79504\/senate-panel-continues-dont-ask-dont-tell-hearings\" >earlier this month<\/a> by testifying, in the form of a  36-point-font comic sans email forward, that the 1995 Srebrenica  massacre of Bosnian Muslims occurred because of the poor order and  discipline of the Dutch peacekeepers guarding them, a consequence of the  Dutch military&#8217;s acceptance of open homosexual service. There is simply  no evidence of any such connection, and the Dutch vigorously objected  to Sheehan&#8217;s testimony. Sheehan only testified because the Republican  minority on the Senate Armed Services Committee informed the Democratic  majority that it wanted a witness to argue for the continuation of  &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; if the Dems wanted to bring forward two young  officers cashiered for being gay. It ended up not being the best  thought-out gambit.<span id=\"more-80990\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now the whole sorry episode has ended with Sheehan&#8217;s apology.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8596064.stm\" >The  BBC reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[I]n an e-mail to Gen Breemen  released by the Dutch defence ministry, Gen Sheehan said: &#8220;I am sorry  that my recent public recollection of those discussions of 15 years ago  inaccurately reflected your thinking on some specific social issues in  the military.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;To be clear, the failure on the ground in Srebrenica was  in no way the fault of the individual soldiers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Marine Gen. Jack Sheehan embarrassed himself\u00a0earlier this month by testifying, in the form of a 36-point-font comic sans email forward, that the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of Bosnian Muslims occurred because of the poor order and discipline of the Dutch peacekeepers guarding them, a consequence of the Dutch military&#8217;s acceptance of open homosexual service. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}