McCain no longer willing to defer to Pentagon on "don't ask, don't tell"

John McCain said in 2006 that the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy towards gays in the military should be changed if leaders of the armed forces say it should be — but now that some of those leaders are for repealing the policy, McCain is still not necessarily for it, instead saying the military should be “very careful as to how we move forward” on the issue…

McCain said there is a “yearlong study that will hopefully also have the feelings of the men and women who are serving,” and if that yields the conclusion that the policy should be repealed, he’d consider supporting it.