I’ll assume there won’t be any disagreement with this message from Australia’s army chief about unacceptable behavior in the ranks:
And I’m rather surprised that the usual Obama bashers have paid so little attention to what I consider a bigger scandal than anything else the administration has or hasn’t done– namely the failure to deal successfully with sexual harassment and assault in the armed forces.
The Pentagon is reeling from a series of sex-related scandals in recent weeks, including cases in which military advocates for victims of sexual assault were themselves accused of sex crimes.
A study released by the Defense Department… estimated that reports of unwanted sexual contact in the military, from groping to rape, rose 37 percent in 2012, to about 26,000 cases from 19,000 the previous year.
Obama should have demanded– as forcefully as General Morrison– that the military deal severely these outrages from the beginning of his first term.
