Well if Gates is retained perhaps the sodomy in the military drive will at least be put on hold a while. We’ll see what happens to the women in infantry drive.
Gates is going to be there for less than a year and will take the fall for something. He will be replaced in short order by Gen. Westley Clark or someone similar to him.
The socialist re-engineers have their priorities, and gays serving openly in the military probably rates above winning against Al Qaeda in their book. The former will certainly happen before the latter.