You know this was coming sooner or later...

Secretary of the Navy Donald C. Winter vetoed plans to commission the Makin Island, the Navy's newest and most powerful warship, in San Francisco in 2008 because of a perception that the city is anti-military.

Retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. J. Michael Myatt, chairman of a high-powered committee that was to support a commissioning ceremony for the Makin Island, said he has been informed that the ship would not be commissioned in San Francisco, as scheduled, but in San Diego.

Myatt said he had been told that the Navy was concerned about San Francisco's refusal to provide a homeport for the retired battleship Iowa, which would be turned into a museum, and for the city school board's decision to abolish junior ROTC training in San Francisco high schools.

One of the factors that turned the Pentagon against San Francisco, he said, was widely quoted anti-military remarks made by various city politicians. Some of the remarks got considerable attention, especially ones made by Gerardo Sandoval, a member of the Board of Supervisors, who was quoted on national television as saying national defense should be left to "the cops and the Coast Guard.''

The Makin Island is a helicopter assault ship and a big one at that--so big that it can't fit through the Panama Canal and thus has to go around South America to join the third fleet.

Lots of complaints from San Francisco:

"Bringing this ship here is a great opportunity to showcase what great people we have in the military. Instead, they are trying to poke a stick in the eye of local politicians. I think it is shortsighted.''

Is he possibly suggesting that local politicians don't enjoy popular support? That San Francisco isn't a hotbed of anti-military sentiment?

San Francisco politicians are extraordinarily small-minded, morally-stunted and petty specimens and frankly there is no reason for the military to have to endure their insults and disrespect. I think if it were me, I would discontinue all extracurricular military activity in San Francisco (including Fleet Week) until I got an apology from the ungrateful wretches on the city council.