The Absurd Report

JAMES JAY CARAFANO: When whales trump security

It’s a dangerous world out there. Iranian mullahs push forward their missile and nuke development programs while musing about a world without Israel … or America. Russia rattles its saber, invades Georgia, plants its flag in the Arctic and dismisses the United States as a has-been superpower. Islamists wage a “holy war” against “the Great Satan” with firefights in Afghanistan, bombings in the Middle East and plots around the world.

Perilous times, indeed. And while America is at war, environmental extremists are on a mission, too. Just not necessarily on our side.

Increasingly, environmental organizations have opted to advance their agendas with a single-mindedness that borders on blindness. Zealous dedication to The Cause has led them to wage legal battles even when victory means compromising national security to achieve little more than symbolic advances in environmental protection. Alarmingly, they have found common cause with a judiciary that has lost a sense of proportionality.

Case in point: The Navy has a whale of a problem.