Retired Marine Corps Gen. John “Jack” Sheehan suggested today that European militaries were weakened after the fall of the Soviet Union because they allowed openly gay soldiers to serve.
Sheehan, who commanded NATO forces in the 90s, was testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, and said that European armies were weakened because of policies that would “socialize their military,” and peacekeeping efforts “that led to a force that was ill-equipped to go to war.”
He referenced the Dutch military’s supposed failure to intervene in a massacre in Bosnia in 1995, and said that at the time the Dutch force “was understrength, poorly led, and the Serbs came into town, handcuffed the soldiers to telephone poles, marched the Muslims off and executed them.”
Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) asked, “Did the Dutch tell you it was because there were gay soldiers there?”
“Yes,” Sheehan replied. “They included that as part of the problem.”
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