San Francisco has long been known as a bastion of anti-war sentiment. And as the oft-repeated mantra goes, local peace activists support the troops, just not the mission.

But in recent years, the rhetoric has been ratcheted up to the point where the U.S. military itself, and by extension, the preservation of American security, has come under attack. Without the U.S. military and its citizen soldiers, American security would indeed be a thing of the past. Yet this hasn't stopped San Francisco's left-leaning leadership from trying to effect that very outcome.

The latest such attempt comes in the form of an anti-war textbook approved last month for use in San Francisco public schools.

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