It will almost certainly be repealed at some point. To me, the best argument for doing it sooner rather than later is that if it's repealed by the legislature, the armed services can plan the removal of the policy, and do so in a controlled manner. If it's not repealed, there's the possibility that it could be overturned in the courts (one judge has already ruled that way), and if that happens, they will have to stop enforcing it abruptly, with no planning.

Army Chief of Staff General George Casey, Air Force Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead, Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Robert Papp, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Joint Chief of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen, are all in favor of repealing "don't ask, don't tell," either now or in the future. But I guess they're just a bunch of "liberal goobers" who don't know what they're talking about, trying to shove their beliefs down somebody else's throat.

Nobody's trying to force anybody into "understanding" homosexuality, or "seeing the light" about anything. Heck, I'm a pretty liberal guy, and consider myself to be very tolerant of gay people, but I don't really understand how a man can be attracted to another man, and I doubt I ever will. Some people just are, that's all. But that's not what they're trying to do. They just want to get rid of the rule so that they won't get tossed out of the military if someone discovers they're gay. What's so unreasonable about that?