San Francisco: Military Not Worth Honor

From San Fransisco we have news that after Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Ca) got $3 million appropriated to have it moved from Rhode Island to San Francisco, the board of supervisors rejected having the retired battleship USS Iowa in port as a museum.

According to the AP:

But city supervisors voted 8-3 last month to oppose taking in the ship, citing local opposition to the Iraq war and the military’s stance on gays, among other things.

“If I was going to commit any kind of money in recognition of war, then it should be toward peace, given what our war is in Iraq right now,” Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi said.

What utter nonsense. For one thing, the War in Iraq has nothing to do with WW2. Secondly, its amazing that the left is under the impression that soldiers are fighting for the cause of war.

A good soldier, a good military, a good general truly fights to bring the enemy to terms so that conditions of peace can be worked out. That’s how you get to the point of peace. Of course, peace has a price. As Patrick Henry said in “Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death”: “Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery!” Well the American left responds, “yeah, yeah” Patrick Henry would still cry out, “Forbid it Almighty God!”

Feinstein called it a “very petty decision.”

“This isn’t the San Francisco that I’ve known and loved and grew up in and was born in,” Feinstein said.

Now to be fair, Feinstein is definitely not a conservative (11% career ACU rating) but she’s fairly moderate for San Francisco, which says a lot about that town (The State’s other Senator whose also from San Fran has a career ACU rating of 2%) but this is today’s San Francisco. All the left has left these days is pettyness: attack a small town with few resources about a Ten Commandments monument, rip out a nativity display to preserve the Constitution, and be general busybodies. In the city by the Bay, of course they’re going to reject the service of soldiers for five decades on the USS Iowa because “Bush is evil, the military is evil, and we’re going to show them!” The American left today!

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