LAT against the Navy

They don't call it the left coast for nothing. This morning a LAT editorial argues that the Navy and President Bush are wrong to insist on the right to hold training exercises off the California coast that utilize new, more powerful sonar that sailors need to learn to use in order to find and identify new, quieter-running submarines. Environmentalists and a District Court judge have tried to prevent the Navy from going ahead with the training but President Bush has granted a waiver on national emergency grounds.

Naturally, the LAT sides with the environmentalists. No surprise, the judge does too. (Left coast judges are not always unbiased.) No surprise, the LAT opposes President Bush and the military.