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The Senate’s repeal Saturday night of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy in the United States military, implemented under President Clinton in 1993 as a compromise between allowing men and women to serve openly and downright banning them from service, is much more of a milestone achievement from a symbolic standpoint rather than on-the-ground efficiency. But repeal’s symbolism is striking, nonetheless. It symbolizes, simply, that our politicians are still capable of doing the ...
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