[grobdriver]

"There was no justification for giving the Navy a blank check to operate this sonar in 75 percent of the world's oceans," said Joel Reynolds, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Except for the fact that the enemy does not respect stupid judge's decisions - and will choose those areas to operate much like the North Korean mIGs dashed across the Yalu river which UN pilots were forbidden to cross.

If ever one, just one of my shipmates is injured or worse due to this action, I vote this moron judge and attorney be taken to the nearest warship and keelhauled.

[Tallguy]

Would this Judge rather see a US nuke sub get splattered by a torpedo fired from one of these acoustically invisible SSK's? THAT would be a greater environmental disaster than a few beached whales!

...will choose those areas to operate much like the North Korean MiGs dashed across the Yalu river which UN pilots were forbidden to cross.

That was the official policy of the USAF during the Korean War. Once it became know that these were Russian and Chinese pilots, US pilots operating on their own initiative would regularly zip across the Yalu to orbit the offending air fields. If a MiG attempted to take off, it died. This was very economical since a single F86 could negate an entire soviet fighter regiment. Veteran American pilots have been admitting to this in recent years...