Observing Pearl Harbor Day

Just a short note to observe the 66th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the US Naval and Army bases at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. This attack, coming, as it did, explicitly in advance of the Japanese declaration of war on America, galvanized public commitment to defeating Japan as nothing else probably ever could.

Whether Roosevelt conspired to facilitate so much damage and loss of life among American servicemen has never been clearly determined.

Never the less, on this day, I think it's worthwhile to consider our modern counterpart, September 11, 2001.

That day's terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers parallels the Pearl Harbor attack. There was no explicit change in relationship status between the United States and another recognized state.

Rather, it marked the first time the shadowy forces which share extremist Islamist beliefs struck Americans on our own soil.

In the midst of the current campaigns for the November, 2008 Presidential election, it is timely to note the different reaction of the American people from that of our predecessors in World War II.

Now, Democratic candidates insist there is no terrorist threat, and that we should simply withdraw from combat in foreign lands. They fuel the public's desire to believe that sacrifice is unnecessary to protect our way of life, liberty and freedom. The mainstream media is complicit in this campaign.

Rather than see Pearl Harbor as an isolated event, I think we should take a lesson from it and rededicate ourselves to eliminating the forces which, without reason, threaten, and have attacked our country, wherever they may be found.

Remember the Arizona. Remember Pearl Harbor.