Today the Houston Chronicle praises retired Chairman of te Joint Chiefs of Staff John Shalikashvili for his NY Times column on the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

In the last six years, U.S. service members have been barraged with poor decisions made in Washington. They were fed false pretexts, left understaffed and shipped into a conflict with no endgame. Yet at least one unnecessary burden — the "don't ask, don't tell" policy about gay orientation — is a relic of the Clinton administration. Now one of the original defenders of that policy is leading the charge to end the policy and the damage it does to the military.

Retired Gen. John Shalikashvili, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Bill Clinton, said last week in a New York Times opinion piece that the time to end antigay discrimination in the military is nearing. It was a pathbreaking act of leadership that should embolden other military leaders who agree with him to speak out, too.

Fair enough -- but almost a full week after the original column appeared on January 2.

Indeed, I wrote about it (favorably) that day.

What took the Chronicle so long? And why hasn't the paper sought to reprint the column that it thinks is worthy of editorial comment?

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