The name
Unicorn for the
Dutch military mission in Uruzgan, Afghanistan, has been scrapped.
The Dutch Rightist (very onpopular) government says: as in the United States Unicorn is associated to the US gay rights' organization.
Definitely not all people in the USA hate gay people.
However, the Bush administration does: gay marriage banned, gays banned from armed forces, police torturing gay people.
While laws in The Netherlands include legal gay marriage, no discrimination of gays in armed forces or elsewhere, etc.
Gay rights, it is often said, are a canary in the coal mine of human rights in general.
Probably, on other human rights issues in Afghanistan, like torture of prisoners at Bagram airbase and elsewhere, the Dutch government's standards will sink to George W Bush's level.
You can send a protest e mail to Dutch Minister of Defence, Henk Kamp, defensievoorlichting@mindef.nl.
See more here.