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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To get back on a reasonable track, what did people think about the arguments proffered by the military?[/quote]

As a veteran, I didn't find it persuasive at all.  The Pentagon leadership trots out the same arguments every time affirmative action is before the Court.  In past cases, those arguments resonated and clearly impacted the outcome.  I listened to the oral argument and was glad to hear that some of the justices were growing skeptical.  In my experience, service members seek strength of character and leadership in their command; no one gives a damn about diversity.  If the effectiveness of our armed forces really rested on the existence of race-based preferences in the colleges that feed our officer corps, we are truly f***ed as a nation.  And like the plaintiffs argued (quite effectively in my opinion), there is not a scintilla of evidence that ROTC programs in states that have banned racial preferences are any less effective at producing military officers.[/quote]

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