Dutch officials have fired back at remarks yesterday by retired General Jack Sheehan that their military’s readiness may have been hurt by openly gay service-members, calling his comment “irresponsible” and “way off the mark.”At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing yesterday, Sheehan suggested that the Dutch’s attempt to “socialize their military” after the fall of the Soviet Union may have hurt their efforts to intervene in a massacre in Bosnia in 1995.
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