San Jose Mercury News editorial: Rape in military has a better solution
The San Jose Mercury News Editorial Board writes:
The spike in reports of sexual assaults in the military has the Pentagon scrambling, as it should.
“We have a long way to go in solving this problem,” said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel last week. He is a master of understatement.
But the president and Congress passed up the real opportunity to solve it. They should have taken sexual assault reporting out of the military order of command.
