USA Today Editorial: Military sex assault victims get aspirin: Our view
USA Today Editorial Board writes:
In the past few weeks, the Pentagon’s top brass and lawmakers of all stripes have called the rise in sexual assaults in the military everything from a “cancer” to a “plague.”
But on Wednesday, when the Senate Armed Services Committee had its chance to find a cure, it opted for the equivalent of an aspirin.
Led by its chairman, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the committee voted 17-9 to keep the current system of prosecuting assault cases in place – a system that discourages victims from reporting these crimes. The senators, bowing to the Pentagon’s wishes, settled for unsatisfactory half-measures instead of the fundamental overhaul that’s needed.
