"True Colors"

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is the law in the US military services which has seen 12,500 homosexual men and women ejected from service in the last 15 years; and repealing it was one of Obama's key election pledges.

The opposition in the military hierarchy to repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is, of course, undisguised. But if Obama gives the impression that he is reneging on this major commitment, then none of the commitments he made in his candidacy have any meaning at all. On the scale of "1997 Tony Blair the beacon of hope" to "2007 Tony Blair the discredited war criminal", we may as well just advance our opinion of Obama by 10 years and save ourselves a decade of disappointed expectation.

And, in fact, there is other evidence to suggest that would be a sage move... he already seems to have backtracked on his commitments to end the detention without fair trial of those held for years in Guantanamo to the point where Bush supporters are settling back in their seats and lauding him with praise.