"U.S. service members stationed overseas could face a court-martial for patronizing prostitutes under a new regulation drafted by the Pentagon." - Wash PostNow, I'm sympathetic to the argument that many women around the world are forced into prostitution, and therefore this "human traficking" must be stopped. Having said that, this administration seems more interested in stopping our service members from having sex than in preserving their lives on the battlefield. Body armor? Nah. Soldiers having sex? Now there's an issue Bush cares about.
You see, what most folks don't realize is that Bush is doing this to pander to a direct demand from the religious right:
President Bush should order the Department of Defense to prohibit our military to visit brothels, sexually oriented businesses, and to use any government facility or equipment to view pornography. - Concerned Women for America, 5/11/04Yep, the fundies didn't want our troops having sex, or anything else that might bruise their innocent sensibilities, so Bush caved to them. Again, I get that this is a more complicated issue, but we're at war folks and these guys are dying. The last thing I'm worried about is whether they're paying for sex on what might be their last night on earth. Why is it apparently the FIRST thing our president is worried about?
