Oakland mayor (and former California governer) Jerry Brown is appalled by the San Francisco school board’s having voted down the JROTC program, which I mentioned here:
Here’s Brown’s reason [emphasis mine]:
Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, a JROTC alum, was appalled at the board’s decision. As Brown told me, “The notion of the new left is decentralization. It’s choice. It’s respect for difference. It’s diversity. All four of those principles were fundamentally violated by the school board.”
And: “I oppose the war in Iraq, too, but that has nothing to do with the value of ROTC and the right of people to choose that.”
I’m on board. Where do I sign up for this “new left”?
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[...] Hmmm. It seems there’s serious a hearts-and-minds battle going on between the peaceniks and the hawks in the culture beyond the blogosphere—you know: out there in America, where no one gives a shit what we blather on about and they just go ahead and live their lives. On the side of the peaceniks you’ve got the Central Committe for Conscientious Objectors, which proselytizes against JROTC (the organization that was just banned from San Francisco by its school board) because it’s too controversial, too likely to promote violence, too expensive, too controlled by Washington, too discriminatory, and too much at odds with the goal of creating critically-thinking students in gun-free schools. [...]
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