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CBS decided that the dispute between the USNavy's submarine fleet and whale-loving environmentalists should be covered from the Pentagon; NBC treated it as a Supreme Court story, where a challenge to military maneuvers using full-strength sonar was heard on the grounds that the noise blows out the brains of marine mammals. NBC's Pete Williams pointed out that the sonar was being used "in the middle of a national marine sanctuary" off the Californian coast. CBS' David Martin repeated the argument that "in the middle of two wars a federal judge cannot play Commander in Chief and interfere with critical training exercises."
You might think that the "two wars" Martin was referring to were the ones in Iraq and Afghanistan, except neither group of insurgents possesses a submarine fleet that the USNavy has to protect against. You would be wrong. Martin was referring to the Korean War, warning of "the potential that a North Korean submarine might sneak up on Pearl Harbor."
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